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Example sentences for "privy seal"

  • Lord Bath was named first commissioner of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer; Lord Carlisle, privy seal, and Lord Winchilsea reinstated in the Admiralty.

  • They were followed by the Duke of Richmond, Postmaster-General, and by Lord Ripon, Privy Seal.

  • Pitt himself surprised the world by taking a peerage as Lord Chatham and the small office of Privy Seal.

  • He issued writs of Privy Seal to the nobility, gentry, and clergy, for loans of money, and menaced vengeance if they were not complied with.

  • The Marquis of Halifax lays down his office of Privy Seal, and pretends to retire.

  • There were the Duke of Ormond, Privy Seal, Bedford, Belasis, Halifax, and a world more of Earls and Lords.

  • By writ of privy seal, and of the date aforesaid by authority of Parliament, and for 20 marks paid in the hanaper.

  • By writ of privy seal and of the date, etc.

  • By the end of the 1200s, the King's wardrobe, where confidential matters such as military affairs were discussed in his bedroom, became a department of state with the King's privy seal.

  • The king used a privy seal to issue directives to the chancery.

  • When in office he filled the obscure post of Privy Seal, and spoke but seldom.

  • B John of Gaunt's privy seal as King of Castile, 1372.

  • Cromwell regarded him with a sinister and watchful amusement; he looked back at Privy Seal with a black malignancy that hardened his yellow features, his hooked nose and pursed lips into the likeness of a mask representing hatred.

  • Woe betide the girl who calls me a gossip of Privy Seal.

  • Privy Seal had an angry and contemptuous frown at his return.

  • He had heard from Katharine that the King had spoken graciously to her, and he swore once more that she was the apple of the King's eye, as well as a beloved disciple of Privy Seal's.

  • In the midst of April, his Majesty was graciously pleased to renew my privy seal for my pension of 40l.

  • Privy Seal that is dead and done with worked with a very great cunning.

  • For then he was seeing the dreadful face of his great master, Privy Seal, when the day of his ruin had come.

  • To write such a letter as should appear brave and faithful and true to Privy Seal's cause.

  • He was still a little shaken at the thought of Privy Seal.

  • Moreover, it was by way of being a favour of Privy Seal's.

  • The magister had written for him a play in English; the rich post was the reward--and it was an ill thing, a thing the magister dreaded, to refuse the favours of Privy Seal.

  • A letter of "Loan by Privy Seal" even more execrable both as to grammar and diction than the documents emanating from Royalty at the present day--and that is admitting much.

  • I was the bearer of a letter of Privy Seal to him-- for a loan.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accordance with; among primitive; describe the; ecclesiastical authority; eight books; lactic acid; legal force; looking for; man and; marriage custom; natural system; other crops; person named; preserve their; privy councillor; privy councilor; privy purse; privy seal; real person; short tail; smile upon his lips; thou proud; water hole; who gave; whole force