privy-council

Here is Jem come back with tidings, that he saw a pursuivant there with a privy-council warrant, and half a score of yeomen assistants, armed to the teeth, and the horn which we heard was sounded to call out the posse of the Friars.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

Huntinglen, applying himself to comfort his new daughter-in-law, withdrew with her also; and the king, with his privy-council, whom he had not dismissed, again returned to his council-chamber, though the hour was unusually late.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

“I think I need not remind you, Colonel, that when our family interest was of service to you last year in that affair in the privy-council, you considered yourself as laid under some obligation to us?”

Old Mortality 2004

But I must own I think Colonel Grahame rather deficient in attention to you; and I am not over and above pre-eminently flattered by his granting to young Evandale (I suppose because he is a lord, and has interest with the privy-council) a request which he refused to so old a servant of the king as I am.

Old Mortality 2004

Miss Helstone's duties of hostess performed, more anxiously than cheerily, she betook herself to the kitchen, to hold a brief privy-council with Fanny and Eliza about the tea.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Jones, by the advice of his privy-council, replied:

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

During the brief interval that took place betwixt the dismissal of the audience and the sitting of the privy-council, Leicester had time to reflect that he had that morning sealed his own fate.

Kenilworth 2004

On November 29, 1679, he was appointed lord - warden and chief-justice of the king's forests on this side Trent, and sworn of the privy-council, January 26, 1680.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Nothing was done on the Monday for preventing mischief, except the issuing of a proclamation by a privy-council, offering a reward of £500 for those persons who had been concerned in destroying the Sardinian and

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

The appointment of Dr. Duigenau, to a seat in the privy-council, which took place about this time, was considered as

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr