counsellers

Upon this, the magistrates who are called counsellers first joined together with an intention to oppose it but were afterwards induced to agree to it, from a belief that if that law was not repealed they would permit the management of all other public affairs to remain in their hands; but afterwards, when they endeavoured to restrain some fresh alterations that were making, they found that they could do nothing, for the whole form of government was altered into a dynasty of those who first introduced the innovations.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

Page 528, "counsellers" changed to "counsellors" (and he and his counsellors saw far more hope).

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Finally concluding vpon such treaties and articles of amitie, as the letters of the Kings and Queenes maiesties most graciously vnder the greate seale of England to him by the sayd counsellers deliuered, doth appeare.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Christians in the Carauan, had it not bene for feare of his brother the king of Vrgence, as we were informed by one of his chiefest counsellers, who willed vs to make him a present, which he tooke, and deliuered: besides, we paid at the said castle for custome, of euery camel one red hide of Russia, besides pety gifts to his officers.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Lincoln, chancelor, and the right honorable William lord de Roos, high treasurer of England, both of their counsellers vnto the sayd soueraigne king on the one party, and the right worshipfull Iohn

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The Spanish King hauing with small fruite and commoditie, for aboue twentie yeeres together, waged warre against the Netherlanders, after deliberation with his counsellers thereabout, thought it most conuenient to assault them once againe by Sea, which had bene attempted sundry times heretofore, but not with forces sufficient.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

She leads her to the walls of Troy, where Priam sat with his counsellers observing the Grecian leaders on the plain below, to whom Helen gives an account of the chief of them.

The Iliad of Homer 2003

The king, hearing these words, answered, that he was both willing and bound to receive the faith which he taught; but that he would confer about it with his principal friends and counsellers, to the end that if they also were of his opinion, they might all together be cleansed in Christ the Fountain of Life.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

The inquisitor-general presided, with aid of six or seven counsellers nominated by the king; and his officers were a fiscal (or quasi prosecuting attorney), two secretaries, a receiver, two relators, a secuestrador (or escheator), and officials.

Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield

Of counsellers some from friendship do not notice the difficulties; others from motives of self-interest say only what is agreeable.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli