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Updated: May 22, 2025

This is one of the features in Clarendon's scheme of the constitution, which essentially divide him from the modern view. But it was to be long before the Privy Councilship became, as in modern usage, little more than an honorary title; and it may be doubted whether a strict reading of the constitution is not infringed by the change which this has involved.

Earl of Edward Hyde Clarendon - Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02