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  • The Privy-Council, however, did not share this impression.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • Lord Lansdowne then rose, and in the name of the Privy-Council asked that this most gracious, most welcome communication might be printed.

    Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

  • _English_ Privy-Council may impose a _Negative_ on the _free_ and

    An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke

  • Lord Lansdowne then rose, and in the name of the Privy-Council asked that this most gracious, most welcome communication might be printed.

    Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

  • But _you_ are surely qualified by this time; your minority is prehistoric, your name is on the Privy-Council roll, your senatorial rank dates back almost to Cronus.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Conversation; but his Name was mention'd with the utmost Veneration in the King's Chambers, and his Privy-Council.

    Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

  • Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council, beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among them.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council, beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among them.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council, beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among them.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, August 1668 Pepys, Samuel 1668

  • Soon after the Restoration he was sworn of the Privy-Council to King Charles II. and on September gih, 1661, created a Ba -

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

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