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
English and Welsh and Quenya. This lecture is considered Tolkien's "last major learned work". There were several important aspects to it: firstly, it "includes a valuable contribution to the study of the place of Britons in Anglo-Saxon England", secondly, a warning against racial theories, thirdly, a hypothesis of "inborn" linguistic tastes which then leads into a discussion of his own views of aesthetics in language, and finally, it provided a (correct) hypothesis on the origins of the word "w(e)alh", which in turn provided an explanation of what happened to Celtic when the Anglo-Saxons invaded. English and Welsh "English and Welsh" is the title