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How the building was named
This name is obviously associated with "chancellor" which has a long history going back to Roman times. It first appeared in English in the eleventh century. Most people spell the building housing the chancellor as "chancellery" but in 1963 the University Council decided that the administration building should be known as the "Chancelry". "Chancelry" is an archaic contraction of "chancellery".The name is also related to "chancery", one of the three divisions of the High Court of Justice in England. Associated with this is the term "to get a mans head into chancery", which is to get something under your arm where you can pummel it as long as you like and it cannot break free without great difficulty. This phrase alludes to long and exhausting law suits for which the court of chancery was once notorious. |
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