"The county of Kent [England] is divided into six 'lathes,' of
nearly equal size, having the jurisdiction of the hundreds in
other shires. The lathe may be derived from the Jutish
'lething' (in modern Danish 'leding')—a military levy."
_T. P. Taswell-Langmead,
English Constitutional History,
chapter 1, foot-note._
LATHOM HOUSE, Siege of.
See ENGLAND: A. D. 1644 (JANUARY).