Examples of Privy in a sentence
And when reports of this disjuncture circulated back to Europe, King James forced two small, unofficial summits in 1621 and 1622.168 Neither, however, amounted to any formal agreements.169 Throughout 1623 and 1624, James I continued to hold sporadic negotiations between Ambassador Caron, the Dutch embassy, and commissioners of the Privy Council.170 Even this inter-state dialogue began to fall apart, however.
Both of these men had been authors of the authoritative report supporting James’ claim to the Northern European fisheries in 1609, as well as the subsequent negotiations with Caron over the issue in 1610.80 Clement Edmondes was clerk to the Privy Council and had significant experience in the Netherlands as a military administrator for Elizabeth’s army in the late 1590s.