How To Use privy council In A Sentence
- Cromwell was lead out to the block and read his sentence, something about treason against the crown and some other things the Privy Council thought up.
- The ancient practice of "pricking" a name on a piece of parchment presented to Her Majesty at a meeting of the Privy Council is how she gives her assent to that individual becoming a High Sheriff. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- But, as has been said, the Privy Councillorship was an office, not a title, although with a title attaching to the office; and in theory, at least, a scientific Privy Councillor might some day play an important part as an accredited representative of science, to be consulted officially by the Government, should occasion arise. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
- I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
- I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. '' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
- I am of opinion, and so I believe will Mr. Crossmyloof and the Privy Council, that this rising in effeir of war, to take away the life of a reprieved man, will prove little better than perduellion. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
- Which is healthier: the Prince, as privy councillor, getting out his fountain pen, or a billionaire lushing up Peter Mandelson on a yacht? Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- The privy council originally consisted of senior courtiers who advised the sovereign. Times, Sunday Times
- I find that in 1631 our house of burgesses desired of the privy council in England, a coin debased to twenty-five per cent.; that in 1645 they forbid dealing by barter for tobacco, and established the Spanish piece of eight at six shillings, as the standard of their currency; that in 1655 they changed it to five shillings sterling. Notes on the State of Virginia
- She justified her request that Lady Tyrwitt be replaced as her governess "bicause ... the people wil say that I deserved throwgh my lewde demenure" to have a new governess. 133 In this same letter, she thanked Somerset for authorizing the Privy Council to issue orders that the "ivel reportes" about her be quelled. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558