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QUEEN ANNE STYLE 



QUEEN'S COUNTY 



permission from tin- king, on pain of forfeiture of 

 lands and goods. On the marriage of a king, or 

 accession of an unmarried prince, parliament makes 

 provision for the queen 'H maintenance, in auto of 

 tier survivance. 



The queen-regnant is a sovereign princess who 

 has succeeded to the kindly |ower. In modem 

 times, in those commie- wheie tin- Salic law does 

 not prevail, on failure of mules a female succeeds 

 to the throne. By an act of Queen Mary, the lirst 

 queen-regnant in England, it was declared ' that 

 the regall power of this realme is in Uip queue's 

 inajestie as fully and absolutely as ever it wan in 

 any of her most noble progenitours kinges of this 

 realme ; ' and it ha- tiince lie held that the 

 powers, prerogatives, and dignities of the queen 

 regnant differ in no respect from those of the king. 

 The husband of the queen-regnant is her subject; 

 but in the matter of conjugal infidelity he is not 

 subjected to the same penal restrictions as the 

 queen-consort. He i not endowed by the consti- 

 tution with any political rights or privileges, and 

 his honours and precedence must be derived from 

 the queen. The Prince Consort was naturalised by 

 3 and 4 Viet, words being used which enabled him 

 to be a privy -councillor, and sit in parliament ; but 

 it was provided that His Koyal Highness was not, 

 by virtue of his marriage, to acquire any interest 

 in the property of Her Majesty. By a decree of the 

 Queen, Prince Albert enjoyed place, pre-eminence, 

 and precedence next to Her Majesty. 



Queen Anne Style. Se RENAISSANCE. 



Queen Anne's Bounty, the name given to 

 a fund appropriated to increase the incomes of the 

 poorer clergy of England, created out of the ti>-t 

 fruits and tenths, which before the Reformation 

 formed part of the papal exactions from the clergy. 

 The tirst -fruit* are the first whole year's profit, of 

 all spiritual preferments, and the tenths are one- 

 tenth of their annual profits, both chargeable 

 according to the ancient declared value of the 

 benefice ; but the poorer livings are now exempted 

 from the tax. Henry VIII., on abolishing the 

 papal authority, annexed both first-fruits and 

 tenths to the crown ; and, by an act passed in 1703, 

 these revenues were set aside, with the consent of 

 Queen Anne, to form a perpetual fund for the 

 augmentation of poor livings. The Archbishops, 

 Bishops, Deans, Speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons, Master of the Rolls, Privy-councillors, Lieu- 

 tenanU and ctutodet rotitlorum of the counties, 

 the Judges, Queen's Serjeants-at-law, Attorney- 

 and Solicitor-general, Advocate-general, Chan- 

 cellors and Vice-chancellors of the two Univer- 

 sities, Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, and 

 m.iMc - of the several cities, and by supplemental 

 charter the officers of the Hoard of Green Cloth, 

 the Queen's Council, and the four Clerks of the 

 I'rivy -council were made a corporation by the 

 nainu of 'The Governors of the Bounty of Queen 

 Aim", tor the augmentation of the Maintenance of 

 the Poor Clergy;' and to this corporation was 

 granted the revenue of first-fruits and tenth-. 

 The governors' grant* consist of capital Mims of 

 200 to meet liquefactions of money, laml, tithes, 

 rent charge*, stijiends, &c., of equal value, offered 

 on behalf of benefices not exceeding 200 in net 

 annual income. A benefaction may ! ottered and 

 a grant nought either for the augmentation of the 

 endowment of a benefice, or tow.-ud- the cost of 

 providing or improving a parsonage-lion^-. Ac. 

 The application of the funds at the disposal of the 

 governors is now made subject to a long series of 

 utatuioi \- provisions. The annual revenue in 1890 

 was CIJTi.siW. See fiipps, /.,iii- x ,,j tlir. Church 

 and Clrrifi/. 



Quern Anne's Farthings. See FARTHING. 



Qneenbprouith, a village on the Isle of 

 Sheppev, Kent, 2 miles S. of Sheernow, was 

 founded by Kdward 111. (1369), and named after 

 Queen I'hilippa. A line of steamers sail d.-iilv 

 between Queenliorough and Flushing in Holland. 

 Pop. 982. 



Queen Charlotte's Islands a group to the 

 north of Vancouver Island, oil' the coast of British 

 Columbia. Area, 5100 sq. m. The two principal 

 islands, Graham and Moresby, have a length of 

 160 and a greatest breadth of nearly 70 miles. The 

 climate is healthy, but very rainy. Anthracite 

 coal, copper and iron ore, and gold-bearing quartz 

 have been found, and fore-is aliouiid. The inhabit- 

 ants are atiout 2000 Indians, who engage in fishing. 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound is a strait separating 

 Vancouver Island, on the north, from the mainland. 



Queen of the Meadow. See SPIILEA. 



Queen's Beiieh. See COM MI IN LAW. 



Queensberry, WILLIAM DOUGLAS, DUKE OF, 

 ' Old Q,' was l>orn in 1724, and succeeded his father 

 as Earl of March, his mother as Earl of Rnglen, 

 and his cousin in 1778 as fourth Duke of Queens- 

 berry. He was famous for years as a patron of 

 the turf, and infamous always for his shameless 

 debaucheries. He is said to have 'displayed great 

 taste in n song," but to-day lives solely through 

 Wordsworth's indignant sonnet, composed at Neid- 

 path, whose venerable trees ' degenerate Douglas ' 

 had felled, to spite his heir or to dower one who he 

 flattered himself wax his daughter. After long 

 fear of death he died unmarried, worth over a 

 million sterling, on 23d I>eccniW 1S10, and was 

 buried beneath the communion table of St James's 

 Church, Piccad illy. See Life by J. R. Robinson ( 1 895 ). 



Queensberry Plot. See LOVAT. 



Queen's College, for women (43 to 45 Harley 

 Street, London), was established in 1K4H, and in- 

 corporated by royal charter in 1853. It owed its 

 existence partly to the Governesses' Benevolent 

 Institution and partly to a movement originated 

 by the Rev. C. G. Nicolay, and supported by the 

 Rev. F. D. Maurice and other King's College pro- 

 fessors. Its Committee of Education as at Brat 

 constituted included the names of Maurice, Trench, 

 and Kingsley ; of Sterndale Bennett and Hullah ; 

 of Ansted and Edward Forbes ; of Mnlready and 

 Richmond. It- aim is to provide for the higher 

 education of women, in the first place by a lilicial 

 school training, and subsequently by a six years' 

 course of college education. Tne college curri- 

 culum includes the school for pupils under fourteen 

 years of age, the preparatory class for pupils too 

 old to be admitted to the school but too backward 

 for the first year's classes in college, and the 

 college course of three years for the training for 

 I he grade of 'associate,' or six years or more for 

 that of 'fellow.' This college is self-supporting, 

 and is at pre-cnt without any endowment. The 

 students number alxmt 360, and are chiefly day 

 scholars, but boarders are received by authority of 

 the council at two adjoining houses in Harley 

 Street. 



See Women's RIGHTS; the Queen'i College Calendar ; 

 Maurice's Queen'i CoUtyt ; itt Oltjret* and Method ( 1H48 ). 

 MraA. Tweedie, The Pint OoOtftfar Women ( 1898). 

 For Irish Quevn'i College*, we IULAMI, Vol. VI. p. 202. 



Queen's Counsel. See KINO'S COIN 



Queen's County, an inland county of l.cin 

 ster, Ireland, is hounded N. by King's County. S. 

 by Kilkenny, and W. by Tipperary, and measures 

 33 miles bv .T7 in its extreme dimensions. Area, 

 I-JI.K54 acres. Pop. (1841) ir>3.!i-> . . IM;I , !Ki.r,:,t> : 

 ( 1881 ) 73,124 ; ( 1891 ) 64,639, of whom 56,743 were 

 Catholics. The number of acres under crop in 



