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
Names of Easter the term for Easter is derived from Latin. In the Brittonic languages this has yielded Welsh "Pasg", Cornish and Breton "Pask". In Goidelic languages the word was borrowed before these languages had re-developed the /p/ sound and as a result the initial /p/ was replaced with /k/. This yielded Irish "Cáisc", Gaelic "Càisg" and Manx "Caisht". These terms are normally used with the definite article in Goidelic languages, causing lenition in all cases: "An Cháisc", "A' Chàisg" and "Yn Chaisht". In Dutch, Easter is known as "Pasen" and in the North Germanic languages Easter is known as "påske" (Danish and