In 1782, he was appointed president of the Privy Council, which place he held, except for a short interim, until his death.
In 1766 he was created Earl Chatham, and occupied the privy seal in the administration.
In 1721 Harcourt was created a viscount and returned to the privy councils; and on several occasions during the king's absences from England he was on the council of regency.
Ireland, and was appointed governor of Limerick and a member of the privy council.
Responsible of course to the elector, the Statthalter, aided by the privy council, conducted the internal affairs of the electorate, generally in a peaceful and satisfactory fashion, until the welter of the Napoleonic wars.
He was dismissed from the privy council in 1676, and on a subsequent visit to London Charles refused to receive him.
In 1628 he was made master of the horse and was also appointed gentleman of the bedchamber and a privy councillor.
In 1596 he had purchased the house in Blackfriars, against the use of which as a theatre was sent up to the Privy Council a petition, which Richard Field signed.
Probably the Privy Council thought it futile to attack the "Puppets.
She was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to the Queen-mother, and survived her husband.
He had been named a privy councillor by Otto, merely that he might profit by the salary; and as he was never known to attend a meeting, it had occurred to nobody to cancel his appointment.
Her enemies maintain that she was privyto all the arrangements which had been made, and that she did not go into her own apartment below, knowing very well what was there.
Bothwell failed to furnish this evidence, saying that the queen was really privy to, and in favor of the plan, but that it was not to be expected that she would commit herself to it in writing.
On April 11 the mob raged round the meeting-place of the Privy Council, rooms under the Parliament House, and chevied the Chancellor into a narrow close, whence he was hardly rescued.
The Privy Council, in January 1705, took the matter up.
In the Privy Council, in November 1753, her arrest was decided on.
The Scottish Privy Council were now formally apprised of the affair, which they cautiously handed over to the Admiralty.
On April 10 a mob, partly from the country, gathered in Edinburgh; the Privy Council, between the mob and the Queen, let matters take their course.
In Scotland the Privy Council refused Queen Anne's demand that the execution of Green should be suspended till her pleasure was known, but they did grant a week's respite.
He showed this in the mistake concerning Sir Robert Collier's hardly more than colourable qualification to be made a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
But this privy mind of his," said Prosper, "must have swung wide from its first leaning, which seems to have been to preserve thee.
She never doubted the truth of what he told her, for the Abbot's privy mind had been declared to much the same purpose to Mald her mother.
He became Lord Privy Seal on the resignation of the Duke of Argyll.
He argued that it carried with it the Privy Council, that it established great personal claims upon the party, and that it afforded a means of getting over the difficulty with the Queen.
If Rosebery was not to be President of the Council, he ought at least to be Privy Seal.
Before this he had been formally admitted to the Privy Council.
I was not a member of the Privy Council or of the Cabinet, and the interests of the party were at stake, as subsequent events well showed.
Bouverie, a Privy Councillor, who to his horror found himself named to tell against the Bill, and thus identified with the "republican" opposition.
Another difficulty about the oath is that it in no way provides for the position towards their chiefs of members of the Government not members of the Privy Council.
May 3rd, betwene 6 and 7 after none the Quene sent for me to her in the privy garden at Grenwich, when I delivered in writing the hevenly admonition, and Her Majestie tok it thankfully.
Feder, Privy Councillor, and Head Librarian, to the Court of Hesse Darmstadt.
Jane my wife delivered her supplication to the Quene’s Majestie, as she passed out of the privy garden at Somerset Howse to go to diner to the Savoy to Syr Thomas Henedge.
But I know you have been privy to his impious designs upon my wife.
For this Sir Agravaine and Sir Mordred had ever a privyhate unto the Queen, Dame Guenever, and to Sir Launcelot, and daily and nightly they ever watched upon him.
Let the young Prince be delivered to me at yonder privy postern, when I come for him.
For, had he not been in his privy thoughts and in his mind so set inwardly to the Queen, as he was in seeming outward to God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Holy Grail.
After the Restoration he was restored to the privy council, and was made recorder of Nottingham and a fellow of the Royal Society.
In 1866 he was raised to the bench as chief baron of the exchequer and made a member of the Privy Council.
He was made a privy councillor and in 1715 was created duke of Kingston; afterwards serving as lord privy seal and lord president of the council.
Bocton Malherbe was the seat of the Wottons, from whom descended Nicholas Wotton, privy councillor to Henry VIII.
His desires for a free trade were denied, but the Privy Council agreed to consult with the Royal Company and to recommend that it be obliged to furnish Jamaica with a sufficient supply of Negroes.
The information lately received from the company's agents was read in the Privy Council and referred to the committee for trade.
Holmes was ordered before the Privy Council to answer to the charges of the ambassadors,[24] but no effort was made to force him to respond.
There is no evidence that the Privy Council called the company's attention to Modyford's request, nor is there any indication that it endeavored to send very many Negroes to Jamaica.
When the company learned of this situation it immediately petitioned Secretary Arlington that Willoughby be commanded not to permit any further procedures against Pepperell and to transmit the whole case to the Privy Council.
Once more the case was heard in the Privy Council where it was referred to the committee on trade and plantations.
Sparke asked for the condemnation of the ship, but on account of a treaty entered into between the English and the Dutch in September, 1662, the Privy Council refused to detain the Dutch ship.
An examination of thePrivy Council Register shows no order of that kind on that date or at any subsequent time.
In his examination before the Privy Council Holmes asserted that in one of the ships captured from the Dutch, orders had been found from the States General commanding the Dutch factors to seize the English fort at Kormentine.
The power of the Privy Council over legislation was abolished.
The great power of the bishops, both in the Privy Council and in the House of Lords, formed a very serious obstacle to church reform.
The federal power has been restrained from undue encroachment on provincial rights by the decisions, on various issues, of the highest court, the judicial committee of the Imperial Privy Council.
My purse, it is my privy wyfe, This song I dare both syng and say, It keepeth men from grievous stryfe When every man for himself shall pay.
Then follows the signature of the Privy councillors, &c.
He confesseth also that Greenway told him that Father Owen was privy to all.
If so, the retention of the name of Robert Winter amongst the diggers, and that of Keyes amongst those made privy afterwards, needs no further explanation.
We come now to the Privy Council, which I imagine, if Mr. Mason had any particular view towards England when he made this objection, was the one he intended as an example of a Constitutional Council in that kingdom.
There are living cricketers, with an average of over eighty, and a dozen centuries in one season to their credit, who have never even been sworn of the Privy Council.
Punch in his first reference to the measure, animated by a recognition of Australia's loyalty in the Boer war, assumed that Clause 74, abolishing the appeal to the Privy Council, would be passed.
I told him I could not believe that he or General Lee, or the officers of the Confederate army, could possibly be privy to acts of assassination; but I would not say as much for Jeff.
I cannot believe that even Mr. Davis was privy to the diabolical plot, but think it the emanation of a set of young men of the South, who are very devils.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
