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 x_d._ 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. ----, for preaching before the king, 30. These entries are of much interest. The first has been before noticed under CAMBRIDGE, and it is only requisite, in illustration of the latter, to observe, that it is evident this distinguished martyr preached before Henry on the second Sunday in Lent, namely the 13th March, 1530, and was rewarded with 5_l._ a sufficient proof that the king was pleased with his doctrines. "His crosier is still preserved in St. John's College, Oxford."--M. Latronel, a jeweller, 270.