By Royal Appointment
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By Royal Appointment

Tales from the Privy Council - the Unknown Arm of Government

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

By Royal Appointment

Tales from the Privy Council - the Unknown Arm of Government

About this book

The Privy Council is a centuries-old institution - yet, for an entity with such extensive influence over Britain's history, we know relatively little about it. What exactly does it do? To whom is it accountable? Just how much power does it hold over us? Some say it has no power at all, although you might not agree if you'd been sentenced to death in a former British overseas territory that still used the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as its court of appeal; or if you were a lecturer having a row with your college, where the University Chancellor was a member of the royal family. Or, indeed, if you were a Prime Minister trying to establish a Royal Charter to control the press. Traditionally an advisory body to the sovereign, the Privy Council's chequered past is full of scandals and secrecy, plots and counterplots - and while it may no longer have the authority to command a beheading, its reach continues to extend into both parliamentary and public life. In By Royal Appointment, David Rogers examines it all, taking us on a fascinating, anecdote-filled odyssey through the history of one of England's oldest and most secretive government bodies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
  6. CHAPTER TWO: REMOTE ANTIQUITY: MYTHS ANCIENT AND MODERN
  7. CHAPTER THREE: REMOTE ANTIQUITY: LEADERS, ADVISERS AND ASSEMBLIES
  8. CHAPTER FOUR: THE CHIEF BUTLER OF ENGLAND AND OTHER GREAT OFFICERS OF STATE
  9. CHAPTER FIVE: FROM KING’S COUNCIL TO PRIVY COUNCIL
  10. CHAPTER SIX: THE PRIVY SEAL, THE GREAT SEAL, AND THEIR KEEPERS
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN: PAWNING THE CROWN JEWELS – AND OTHER MEDIEVAL WORKING PRACTICES
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT: THE COUNCIL, THE COURTS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE STAR CHAMBER
  13. CHAPTER NINE: PRIVY COUNSELLORS PLOTTING AND COUNTERPLOTTING
  14. CHAPTER TEN: RECORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MAN WITH NO EARS AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE STAR CHAMBER
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE: THE STUART SUCCESSION AND THE POSSIBLE PREGNANCY OF LADY ARABELLA
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE CABAL: ‘GREAT WITS ARE SURE TO MADNESS NEAR ALLIED’
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE PRIVY COUNCIL’S TIPPING POINT: 30 JULY 1714
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND THE NEW WORLD: CORRUPTION AND NAKED CELEBRATION
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE AMERICAN PRINCESS COOSAPONAKEESA AND STAMP DUTY
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ‘IT SHALL BE LAWFUL FOR HIS MAJESTY BY ORDER’
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN: ‘WHAT IS BAPTISM?’ THE PRIVY COUNCIL V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY: THE DOWNTON ERA – SIR ALMERIC FITZROY AS CLERK TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE RECTOR OF STIFFKEY ASKS: ‘WHAT ARE BUTTOCKS?’, AND OTHER QUESTIONS LINKING THE PRIVY COUNCIL AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: THE HIGH COURT OF CHIVALRY ASKS ITSELF: ‘DO WE STILL EXIST?’
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: SENTENCED TO DEATH IN JAMAICA – REPRIEVED BY THE PRIVY COUNCIL IN LONDON
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: WHERE IS THE UNIVERSITY OF BASILDON?
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: SPYING, PRIVY COUNCIL CONFIDENTIALITY, D-NOTICES AND THE BAKER STREET ROBBERY
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: FROM REMOTE ANTIQUITY TO PCOSECRETARIAT@ PCO.X.GSI.GOV.UK
  32. APPENDICES
  33. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  34. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  35. INDEX
  36. Copyright