The Privy Council of Scotland (c. 1490 — 1 May 1708) was a body that advised the Scottish monarch. In the range of its functions the council was often...

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The term "privy"...

The Privy Council (formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council) is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members...

The Privy Council of England, also known as His (or Her) Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council (Latin: concilium familiare, concilium privatum et assiduum)...

office of Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, one of the Great Officers of State, first appears in the reign of David II. After the Act of Union 1707...

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for the Crown Dependencies, the British Overseas Territories, some Commonwealth...

government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland. The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the...

Director of Chancery Privy Council of Scotland Treasurer of Scotland Treasurer-depute of Scotland Secretary of State, Scotland List of Masters of Requests...

Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the...

Privy Council of Scotland, Mark Napier insisted that its agents should not have dared flout the Council's decree. Grierson of Lag, brother-in-law of Queensberry...

letter of complaint, dated 7 August 1606, to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, stating: Most sacred Soverayne. A greate nomber of the maisteris...

Cromwell and occupied. In 1652 Scotland was declared part of a Commonwealth with England and Ireland and the Privy Council and courts ceased to exist. The...

the Treasurer-depute, the President of the Privy Council, and the High Admiral of Scotland. Great Officers of State These roles are now permanently...

Darnley. Darnley's father, the Earl of Lennox, and other relatives agitated for vengeance and the Privy Council began proceedings against Bothwell on...

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1592-1599, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 462-3, 467-8. "The register of the Privy Council of Scotland. v.5 1592-1599...

February 1644 he was a member of the Privy Council of England and the Privy Council of Scotland, and on 20 November was one of the Commissioners appointed to...

President of the Scottish Privy Council. He was Lord High Admiral of Scotland from 1705 to 1706. He was Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland from 1709 to...

operating a lead mine on Craufordmuir in 1553. The Privy Council of England discussed the subject of Scottish gold at "Crafordmore" in June 1553. In January...

indemnity, was president of the council, but Atholl remained a privy councillor in an enlarged council with the representatives of both parties. Shortly...

was Lord President of the Privy Council from 1686 to 1689. From 1685 he was one of the lords of the Privy Council for both Scotland and England, but in...

University. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Scotland in 1678, and served as President of the Privy Council of Scotland between 1682 and 1684. In 1681...

Holders of the office of Lord Chamberlain of Scotland are known from about 1124. It was ranked by King Malcolm as the third great Officer of State, called...

became Dean of Windsor. A grandson of Henry was James Primrose (d. 1641) who was Clerk of the Privy Council of Scotland and was the second son of Archibald...

her life under the rule of the Privy Council of Scotland. As queen dowager she was forced to beg permission from the Privy Council even to travel. She obtained...

the Parliament of Scotland. He was also made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber and a member of the Privy Council to James VI of Scotland. In 1600, the King...

be stiled the Parliament of Great Britain. ... XXII. THAT ... A Writ do issue ... Directed to the Privy Council of Scotland, Commanding them to Cause...

Bannatyne Club. Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 498. George Seton, History of the family of Seton during eight centuries...

the interests of peace. When Mary, Queen of Scots, returned to Scotland in 1561 Lord Erskine was a member of her council and was in favor of her marriage...

victim of demonic possession. She was brought to Edinburgh to be investigated by John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale and the Privy Council of Scotland, and...

Lord President of the Council is the presiding officer of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the fourth of the Great Officers of State, ranking...