Council-board

Lennox had died in exile; but Arran was reinstalled at the Council-board, and immediately renewed the old measures against the ministers, whose part in causing his recent fall made him more than ever determined to crush them.

Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison

Around her Council-board she gathered the wisest and strongest men to be found in the realm.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

The loveliness of her person, her youth and the modesty of her manners, together with the respect she paid the Old Lady, made me at first take her for her daughter, but I soon discovered that her husband was a member of the Council, and that she waited his return from the Council-board, to carry her to her house, a few miles up the country.

Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

The King, who was sitting at the Council-board with his ministers, stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence, and remained with his mouth open, in the act of uttering a word, and nobody remarked the strangeness of his conduct, for all his ministers were asleep too, just as they sat.

The Sleeping Beauty Arthur Rackham 1913

The stern, black-bearded kings who sit about the Council-board of India divided on the step, with the inevitable result of driving the Very

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

Inconsistent capitalisation of Council-Board and Council-board (one instance of each) retained.

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

And it will hereafter be seen that, where his commission was large enough, he more than once exercised a discretion not entirely to the taste of the more thorough-going zealots of the Edinburgh Council-board.

Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

Hastings, on his side, refused to be arraigned at his own Council-board by a man whom he alleged to be of notoriously infamous character, though he and Barwell were perfectly willing that the whole matter should be referred to the Supreme Court.

A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

Republic, Sarpi might have quitted this earthly scene with only the faint fame of a thinker whose eminent gifts blossomed in obscurity, had it not been for a public opportunity which forced him to forsake his studies and his cell for a place at the Council-board and for the functions of a polemical writer.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Gardiner, Henry's minister, was drawn from the Tower to take the lead as Chancellor at the Queen's Council-board.

History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8) John Richard Green 1860