----, money lost to him at dice and tennis, [268], bis.
----, to his singers, [269].
The Cardinal of Lorrain. Tennis and dice seem almost as unsuitable to a Cardinal as a band of singers. On the 28th of October, 1532, when Henry ordered 9l. 6s. 8d. to be given to the French king's jester, and 4l. 13s. 4d. to the Cardinal's singers, Hall states that the king of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, and the Great Master and Admiral of France, dined with Henry at Calais; and these payments were evidently made for the amusement which they had afforded the party.
Large John, [90].
Lasala Nowell de, a minstrel, [170].
Last, and a line, for a, [48].
Query, if not a mistake of the writer for mast and a line. See Mast.
Laten, a desk garnished with, [123].
Laten, or Latton, was, Mr. Todd informs us, a mixed kind of metal, made of copper and calamine, said by some to be the old orichalc. The meaning of the word has, however, puzzled our best antiquaries. Mr. Douce says it is always used for brass, whilst Dr. Meyrick thinks it was copper gilt. See some Observations on the subject in a Note to the Archæologia, vol. xxi. pp. 261, [2]. In the 3 Edw. IV. it was prohibited to import "Harneys for gurdels, of iron, of laton, of stele, of tyn, or of alkamyn." Rot. Parl. vol. v. p. 507,a whilst in the 3 Hen. IV. Girdlers were prohibited from garnishing girdles with stones or metal "q' de laton, baterie, feer, et asser." Ibid. vol. iv. p. 73. In the 2 Hen. VI. the Commons complained that people had made "diverse workes of brauderie of unsuffisaunt stuff, and undwely wrought, as well upon velowet, and cloth of gold, as upon all other clothes of silk wrought with gold or silver of Cipre, and gold of Luk, or Spanyssh laton." Ibid. p. 255.a On the Rolls of the 12 and 13 Edw. IV. we find "Basons conterfete of Latyn, and two other basons of laten" spoken of. Ibid. vol. vi. p. 37. Fabian, by his Will in 1511, ordered that a stone of marble should be laid on his grave, "about the borders whereof I will be fastened a plate of laton, within that plate graven thies words," &c. and Lady Mauley, in 1438, bequeathed xx marks "for a marble stone with her portraiture thereon in copper or latten gilt." In the agreement for the tomb of the Earl of Warwick in the 28 Hen. VI. it is covenanted that certain parts shall be made of the finest latten, and to be gilded, and which latten was to cost xd. per pound.—Dugdale's Warwick. It was used for crosses, candlesticks, plates for tombs, effigies, basons, &c. Testamenta Vetusta, pp. 148, 235, 261, 268, 510, 511, 610, 713. From these extracts it is almost certain that Latten, or Laton, was neither iron, steel, tin, alkamain, or baterie, but the conjectures of Dr. Meyrick, Mr. Douce, and Mr. Todd, remain uncontradicted. The metal itself still exists on the tomb of the Earl of Warwick just mentioned, hence there are means of settling the question.
Latimer Master, his expences in coming from and returning to Cambridge, [73].