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Privy Council of Scotland

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By the later fifteenth century the council had advisory, executive and judicial functions though surviving records are mainly confined to the last. It is at this period that the 'secret' or privy council makes its formal appearance when, in February 1490, parliament elected 2 bishops, an abbot or
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presided over the Council ex officio, but in 1610 James VI decreed that the President of the College of Justice should preside in the Chancellor's absence, and by 1619 the additional title of President of the Privy Council had been added. The two presidencies were separated in 1626 as part of
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in 1660, Charles II nominated his own privy councillors and set up a council in London through which he directed affairs in Edinburgh, a situation that continued after the
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in the running the country. Its registers include a wide range of material on the political, administrative, economic and social affairs of the
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of 1688–9. The council survived the Act of Union but for one year only. It was abolished on 1 May 1708 by the
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The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland (1545–1689) was edited and published between 1877 and 1970 by
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A Diary of the Proceedings in the Parliament and Privy Council of Scotland (21 May 1700 – 7 March 1707)
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for the ostensioun and forthputting of the King's authorite in the administracioun of justice
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when the council was largely displaced by an alternative administration set up by the
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Until 1707, the Privy Council met in what is now the West Drawing Room at the
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was able to boast to the English Parliament that he governed Scotland
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prior, 6 barons and 8 royal officers to form the king's council
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Like the Parliament, the council was a development of the
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Index

Privy Counsellor for Scotland
Scottish monarch
Estates
Kingdom of Scotland
beggars
gypsies
witches
recusants
Covenanters
Jacobites
lawlessness
Highlands
Borders
King's Council
Lords Auditors of Exchequer
Court of Session
James VI
Charles II
James VII
upheavals of 1638–41
Covenanters
Cromwellian
restoration of the monarchy
Glorious Revolution
Parliament of Great Britain
Privy Council of Great Britain
Palace of Holyroodhouse
Edinburgh
John Hill Burton
David Masson

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