Latter-Day Saints. See Mormons.
Lattice stands in the Auth.Yers. for the following Hebrew words in certain passages: 1. ^^J'i!X {eshnah', so called from darkening a room), a latticed opening through which the cool breeze passes, and which at the same time screens the inmates, especially females, from exterior sight (Judg. v, 28 ; " casement," Prov. vii, 6). See Window. 2. C^^'^n {charak!dm',i)iop.7iets; Sept. ctKTva), the net-work or lattices of a window (Cant, ii,
^^r~ (■
kdh'. an intc?-u-eaving), the latticed lialustrade before a win- dow or balcony (2 Kings i, 2 ; elsewhere a net or III " snare," Job xviii, 8 ; " net-work," etc.. aroiuid \ the capitals of columns). " The lattice window \\' is much used in warm f, Eastern countries. It if frequently projects from the wall of the building, and is formed of reticu- lated work, often highly ornamental, portions of which are hinged, so that they may be opened or shut at jileasure. The object of the contrivance is to keep the apartments cool
Lattice Window iu Cairo.
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by intercepting the direct rays of the sun, while, at the same time, the air is permitted to circulate freely through
the trellis openings. Through the lat-
JX tice the mother of Sisera and the mys-
>Sr-:J^J tical bridegroom are represented as
O looking. Through tliis Ahaziah fell
Lattice-work in C:uro.
and injured himself; for there is no reason to adopt an old idea that he fell through a grating in the floor. The words in these three texts, how- ever, are different each time in the original, though it is now impossible to determine whether they were entirely interchangeable, or whether there were certain differences of construction indicated by each of them" (Fairbairn). See House.
Latzembock, Henky de, a native of Bohemia, lived in the latter part of the Uth and first part of the loth centuries. He was a friend of the reformer John Huss, whom, in connection with two other friends, he was appointed to conduct in safety to the Council of Constance. He stood very high in the favor of the em- peror Sigismimd, and appealed to him in behalf of the reformer. After the condemnation and burning of Huss lie was himself suspected of heresy, was summoned be- fore the council, and required to abjure the doctrines of his friend and approve of his condemnation. With this requisition he complied, being more intent on his own safety and advancement at court than anxious for reform. After this period little information concerning him is attainable. — Gillett, Life and Times of John Huss, i, 352- 354, 38G ; ii, 28, 2G0.
Laud, "William, the celebrated archbishop imder James I and Charles I, was born at Heading, the princi- pal town of Berkshire, October 7, 1573, of humble but respectable parentage. In 1589 he entered St. John's College, Oxford, graduated with distinction in 1594, and proceeded A.M. in 1598, when he was appointed reader in grammar. In January, ICOO, he was ordained deacon, and priest in 1601. The Calvinistic and Puri- tan tendency was strong in Oxford at that time ; but Laud's immediate instructors and friends had been on the other side; his natural instincts inclined him to High-Church views and high ritualistic observances; he saw, too, that the court was on that side, and that a powerful reaction against the Calvinistic ascendency was ahead)' in progress. Abbot (afterwards jirimate) and Prideaux had succeeded Drs. Holland and Eeynolds as theological professors in the university ; but Laud, being appointed in 1G02 to read the Maye divinity lec- ture in St. John's College, did not hesitate to attack Ab- bot's doctrine in regard to the visibility of the Church. The latter had traced the visible Cluirch do\vn, in the Middle Ages, through the Borengarians, the Albigenses or Waldensians, the Wickliftites, and the Hussites, to Luther and the Reformation ; Laud traced it boldly and exclusively through the Church of Home. They did not see that exclusiveness was the error of both parties. In ICOo James succeeded to the throne of England, and, greatly to the disappointment and disgust of the Puri- tans, but to the unbounded satisfaction of Laud and his friends, he openly took sides with the highest hierar- chical party in the English Church, early adopting as his pet motto, "No bishop, no king." Then followed the "Millenary petition'! and the famous conference at Hampton Court, which resulted in the king's proclama- tion of " imiformity in discipline and worship." This year Laud was chosen proctor for the University of Ox- ford, and in the same year he was appointed chaplain to the earl of Devonshire. In 1604 he took his degree of B.D., and in the thesis which he presented on the occasion he maintained the absolute necessity of bap- tism to salvation, and of diocesan bishops to the exist- ence of a true Church. In tlie fillowing year Laud committed one of the most unfortunate, though oft-re- pented faults of his life, in solemnizing the marriage of hid patron, the earl of Devonshire, with lady Kich, who,
as he and all the world knew, had been divorced from her former husband, lord Kich, on account of adultery alreaily committed with the same earl of Devonshire himself, of whom Laud was meaaiwhUe the chaplain. The consequence of tliis affair was that the earl was utterly disgraced at court, and soon after died, while Laud, sharing in the public odium, was severely cen- sured by the highest dignitaries both in Church and state.