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The Privy-Council, however, did not share this impression.
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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
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_English_ Privy-Council may impose a _Negative_ on the _free_ and
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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