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 literary success; though gradually, beginning in 1937, Welsh writing in English received encouragement from Welsh-based literary and critical journals, initially "Wales", published by Keidrych Rhys in three intermittent series between 1937 and 1960. Next came the "Welsh Review", published by Gwyn Jones, first in 1939 and then between 1944 and 1948. (See also "Life and Letters Today", which between 1938–50 contained works by and about many Welsh writers in English.) An early work of the first wave of Anglo-Welsh writers was "The Withered Root" (1927) by Rhys Davies (1901–78) from the Rhondda Valley. While he probably wrote more fiction about