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At Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during their period of study, in some c
Academics at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1815: a pensioner sits at left, with two Masters of Arts (standing, in robes) and a sizar (the boy at centre).
Assizes
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The assizes, or courts of assize, were periodic courts held around England until 1972, when together with the quarter sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single perma
Sizar
…of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined job. The word is thought to derive from the "sizes" or "sizings" (in turn a shortened form of "assize"), which were the specified portions of food and drink made available at a fixed price at the college. One of the sizar's duties was, historically, to…
Devizes Assize Court, Northgate Street, Devizes, Wiltshire, England