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  • Lord Temple has resigned the Privy Seal, which is commonly said to be intended for Lord Hardwycke; some comfort to him for the loss of his wife, who died a few weeks ago.

    Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

  • The young lord from the Colonies stood a little behind the shoulders of his great friend from the Foreign Office; and the Privy Seal, after moving about for a while uneasily, took a chair behind the

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • He himself felt that he did not stand so high with his colleagues as when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer; not even so high as when he held the Privy Seal.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • Bishop will then have the Privy Seal delivered him at a great

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1708, and third Secretary of State in

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • "For the Privy Seal, Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, a man I hear is a most distinguished young soldier."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "For the Privy Seal, Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, a man I hear is a most distinguished young soldier."

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • To begin with, the emperor had grown so anxious for peace that he was already tentatively reaching out from his cloister, as it were, and the most important peace advocate was Hirohito's chief adviser among the court officials, the lord keeper of the Privy Seal, Marquis Koichi Kido.

    Was the Hiroshima Bomb Necessary? An Exchange Alsop, Joseph W. 1980

  • Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, another Minister, was hanged by his infuriated flock in Wiltshire, and Bishop Moleyns, of Chichester, Keeper of the Privy Seal, was executed in Portsmouth by a mob of sailors.

    The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton

  • The office of Privy Seal was, it is true, taken from the Duke and given to the Marquis of Annandale; but by the favour of

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

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