WOW!

[winterbadger]

I may have posted about this before, but I can't find it quickly (though I did find some other things that I've written about history that were pretty neat).

This company sells ebooks and CD-ROMs. Of historical document collections. REALLY NEAT historical document collections!

They have the Relations Politiques de la France et de l'Espagne avec l'Écosse au XVIe Siècle


the Acts of the Privy Council of England, 1542-1631

the Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1557-1667

For reasonable prices. One could have the whole Calendar of Border Papers, 1560-1603, for $50.

Drool....

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't think England had a privy council in 152.

[winterbadger]

They were VERY forward thinking! :-)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I don't remember right now who the Roman governor was that year. It's too late for Julius Agricola, who I consider the best of the lot. But for all that the Romans really were doing good things in Britannia around then, I just don't think they'd gotten around to creating a Privy Council.

But I could be wrong.

[winterbadger]

Nobody seems to know who was governor in 152, between Gnaeus Papirius Aelianus (145-147) and Gnaeus Julius Verus (154-158?). Wikipedia suggests that

"Every governor had at his disposal a diversity of advisors and staff, who were known as his comites (Latin for "companions"); the number of these depended on the governor's social standing and rank. These comites would serve as the governor's executive council, with each supervising a different aspect of the province, and assisting the governor in decision making."

Which is as close to a Privy Council as a governor is probably going to get.