privy council

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council
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk /ˈkaʊn.səl/ us /ˈkaʊn.səl/
a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a particular group of people, or to run a ...
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Examples of privy council

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The privycouncil continues to be regarded as the main, corporate, advisory body and extra-conciliar counsel as antipathetical to the ' normal ' process of policy-making.
In addition to leaving fines uncollected, the privycouncil limited the impact of recusancy laws in other ways.
More than this, they implicitly questioned the way the king and privycouncil were running the war.
Finding no hope of reconciliation, the sub-commissioners buckled and passed the project back to the privycouncil.
Although the records have not survived, reports to the privycouncil of their proceedings give some indication of the number of parishes affected.
The privycouncil clearly recognized the importance of plays in shaping public opinion.
The nobility were exempt but could be made to swear the oath if asked by six members of the privycouncil.
Settlement between the feuding parties was reached before the privycouncil six weeks later and both agreed to drop their legal actions.
They have re-emphasized the importance of social connections and cultural influences and turned attention away from studying the privycouncil to studying the court.
The authorities believed that law was on their side; the privycouncil acted in good faith.
That disorder was the work of ' outsiders ' was a useful claim, not infrequently rehearsed in correspondence between the county magistracies and the privycouncil.
Although clothing for a soldier could be provided for as little as 4s 8 d in the 1540s, the costs rose once the privycouncil began to specify colours.
Moltke was not on the privycouncil, but served for the entire reign as overhofmarkskal (equivalent to lord chamberlain).
It is therefore not surprising that the state papers and the privycouncil registers are silent on the project in the years immediately after the 1625 incorporations.
It is unclear why the privycouncil did not extend the ban on corantos to include these chapbooks since they covered essentially the same material, though published at longer intervals.
Struensee dismissed the privycouncil and created in its place a style of cabinet government managed by his own political creatures.
At the same time, the commission of the general assembly, established in 1597 as the ecclesiastical equivalent of the privycouncil, was being gradually superseded by the episcopate.
Goethe's primary role within the privycouncil was balancing the books.
He went to look at it and saw that it was to the judicial committee of the privycouncil.
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His entourage was around 15,000 strong, including a military escort, his privycouncil, servants carrying his tapestries, coffers and other furniture, artisans, princes and ambassadors.
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