Chapter Quarter-days in England and Ireland:- to Queen's Ware of Q by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Queen of the Northern Seas Elizabeth, who greatly increased the English navy, and was successful against the Spanish Armada, etc.

Queen's Bench or King's Bench. One of the courts of law, in which the monarch used to preside in person.

Queen's College (Oxford), founded in 1340 by Robert de Eglesfield, and so called in compliment to Queen Philippa, whose confessor he was.
   Queen's College (Cambridge), founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, consort of Henry VI. Refounded by Elizabeth Woodville.

Queen's Day November 17th, the day of the accession of Queen Elizabeth, first publicly celebrated in 1570, and still kept as a holiday at the Exchequer, as it was at Westminster school.
   Nov. 17 at Merchant Taylors' school is a holiday also, now called Sir Thomas White's Founder's Day.

“A rumour is spread in the court, and hath come to the eares of some of the most honourable counsell, how that I on the Queen's day last past did forbidd in our college an oration to bee made in praise of Her Majesty's government, etc.”- Dr. Whittaker to Lord Burghley (May 14th, 1590).

Queen's English (The). Dean Alford wrote a small book on this subject, whence has arisen three or four phrases, such as “clipping the Queen's English,” “murdering the Queen's English,” etc. Queen's English means grammatical English.

Queen's Heads Postage-stamps which bear a likeness of the Queen's [Victoria's] head. (1895.)

Queen's Pipe (The). An oven at the Victoria Docks for destroying (by the Inland Revenue authorities) refuse and worthless tobacco. In 1892 the oven was replaced by a furnace.
    In the Queen's Warehouse, near the Monument, is a smaller pipe for the destruction of contraband articles.

Queen's Ware Glazed earthenware of a creamy colour.