10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINGENTENARY»
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George Ridding: Schoolmaster and Bishop, Forty-third Head ...
1893 was a year of heavy strain, gladdened by three golden holidays of the final
Winchester Quingentenary celebrations and a visit to the Roman Wall. On April 5
(old-style Lady Day), the 500th anniversary of the first Warden and Scholars ...
2
Lectures and Papers on the History of the Reformation in ...
For, though the year of his birth is conjectural, the quingentenary festival is a
commemoration of his death, which took place on December 31, 1384. But the
committee, in their wisdom, have decided not only to celebrate the quingentenary
of ...
Aubrey Lackington Moore,
1890
3
A History of Winchester College
His reign has witnessed two Quingentenary celebrations — the first, in 1887, to
commemorate the five hundredth year from the laying of the foundation-stone of
College, was purely Wykehamical ; the second was to celebrate (though, as has
...
Arthur Francis Leach,
1899
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The life of Edward White Benson: sometime Archbishop of ...
8 Formerly Headmaster of King Edward's School, Birmingham. 9 President of the
Society of Antiquaries. 10 Where my brother Fred had been excavating and
surveying. 1893 WINCHESTER QUINGENTENARY 533 lation worketh out
patience, ...
Arthur Christopher Benson,
1900
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Our public schools: their influence on English history; ...
The Quingentenary or 500th anniversary of the opening (1393— 1893) was kept
on July 25th, 1893. All the boys went to Cathedral, and between 300 and 400 Old
Wykehamists received Communion in Chapel together. The Archbishop of ...
James George Cotton Minchin,
1901
Commemoration of the Quingentenary of the laying of the foundation stone of
College. 25th July, 1893. Quingentenary celebration of the opening of College.
1894. New Field extended by the addition of Dogger's Close. June, 1897.
Opening of ...
Robert Townsend Warner,
1900
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
given her any advice, except to come to terms with her powerful neighbour ; but
England has interests, both territorial and commercial, in the Malay Peninsula,
and will exercise her right to see that they are considered. THE
QUINGENTENARY ...
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Now & Then: A Journal of Books and Personalities
QUINGENTENARY According to the Oxford Dictionary, quincentenary is 'irreg. f.
L. quin(que) five, +centenary. Cf. QUINGENTENARY.' Reference to
quingentenary yielded 'f. L. quingenti five hundred, after centenary, etc. =
quincentenary.
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The Schools of Medieval England
(illustrated). Duckworth & Co., 1899. [See also Winchester College, 1393 and
1893. 18 pp. Contemporary Re¬view, June, 1893. Wykeham's Models in the
Quingentenary volume, Winchester College, 1393-1893. 9 pp. Edward Arnold,
1893.
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An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Incorr. for quingentenary. quincunx. L., orig. five ounces, from quinque, five, uncia
, ounce; also applied to arrangement of trees like the pips on a. five of cards. In
spec. sense introduced by Evelyn and common in describing the artificial
gardens ...