Lettow

English Alternative forms en Lettowe Littowe Etymology en :inh enm:Lettowe 1 ++ Proper noun en obsolete en country in northeastern cont/Europe Lithuania. 2nd Thomas of Walſingham Thomas of Walsingham 1 I The voyage of Henry Earle of Derbie, after Duke of Hereford, and laſtly king of England 123 The Citie alſo which is called Wil or Vilna, into the caſtle whereof the king of Lettow named Skirgalle fled foꝛ his ſauegard, was, by the valour of the ſayd Earle especially and of his followers, ſurpꝛiſed and taken. en 1632 A Short Survey or Hiſtory of the Kingdome of Sveden 26 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1475-1640_a-short-survey-or-histor_sweden_1632/page/n33 Michael Sparke London and finally in the South parts thereof Livonia they vſe the Letticke speech, or of the countrey of Lettow, which the people Eureles likewise vſe, the which is as it were a hodge-podge of many ſeverall languages mingled together. en 1682 John Milton A Brief Hiſtory of Moſcovia CHAP. IV. The Succeſſion of Moſcovia Dukes and Emperours taken out of their Chronicles by a Polack with ſome later Additions 60-61 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-brief-history-of-mosco_milton-john_1682/page/60/mode/2up M. Fleſher for Brabazon Aylmer London Shuſky who ſucceeded him reports in a Letter to King James otherwiſe of him; that his right name was Gryſhca the Son of Boughdan; that to eſcape puniſhment for Villanies done, he turn'd Fryar, and fell at last to the Black art; and fearing that the Metropolitan intended therefore to impriſon him, fled into Lettow; where by counſel of Sigiſmund the Poland King, he began to call himſelf Demetry of Ouglitts. Middle English Proper noun enm proper noun 1 enm Lettowe