Quinzaine refer to a period during which parliament met according to a Writ of Summons by the King. A specific example would be 1257 parliamentum for which the Rolls were latterly destroyed, probably by fire in 19th or 20th centuries. Its significance lay in the Charters used to confirm parliament's right to sit and be summoned at a specific date. "Parliamntum" or "parliamentum generalissimum" could be called every quarter, that coincided with Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas terms, which also happened to be the legal terms for the Inns of Courts in Westminster and London. The quaint term of quindene was
Welsh literature in English her writing, including "Brothers" (1983), where parallels with her own ancestry are obvious: it follows four generations of a family which flees Russia for South Wales. As only a couple of her 25 novels have a Welsh setting she does not fit the narrower definitions of Welsh writing in English. Amongst more recent Welsh writers in English, Niall Griffiths is notable for his novels "Grits" and "Sheepshagger", which portray a grittier side to Welsh literature; and Malcolm Pryce who has writing a number of humorous send ups of "noir" such as "Aberystwyth Mon Amour". Both of these writers were born