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1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A*.ii I make my lectrons and my deskes clene ryght often. My mansyon is all replenysshed with bookes.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 145 Seand Virgill on ane lettrune stand, To writ anone I hynt ane pen in hand.

1534 Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 284* iiij½ elnis sad grene, to covir the Latronis in the Kingis Study.

1561 MS. Acc. Treasurer Edinb. Ane great four-square latterane turning on ane vice.

a1575 Earl Huntly's Death in R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scot. (1806) 486 The whole cofferis, boxis, or lettronis, that the erle him self had in handling; and had ony geir in keping in.

c1610 J. Melville MS. Mem. 5 (Jam.) The whole expenses of the process and pices of the lyble, lying in a several buist by themselves in my lettron.

1691 Z. Haig in Russell Haigs of Bemersyde xi. 226 At that time I desired to be put to a lettering.

1697 Inventory in Sc. Notes & Queries (1900) Dec. 90/1 A writting latron and chamber box.

1719 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 442 I have forgot my book of Ministers' names... It stands behind the latron, in that shelf where my manuscript sermons stood.

a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) I. iii. 181 It was in those days [18th cent.] very common for young men intended for the bar to attend a writer's chambers... In a word, the lattern, as it was called, answered nearly the same purpose in Scotland that the Inns of Court did to the English.

a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 63 People of moderate estate used to send their eldest son for some time to the lattern.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘He was bred to the Lettron’. He was bred a writer; a phrase still used by old people in Edinburgh.