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  • Majesty's pleasure (when the reigning monarch is female, at Her Majesty's pleasure), sometimes abbreviated to the King's pleasure (or the Queen's pleasure), is...
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    necessarily, a peer, and held office during the king's pleasure. He was appointed merely by delivery of the seal, and not, like the chancellor, by patent. His status...
    3 KB (412 words) - 14:59, 5 March 2024
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    attached to the office. Like the Constable, the Lieutenant was usually appointed by letters patent, either for life or during the King's pleasure. The Lieutenants...
    22 KB (3,144 words) - 07:21, 2 May 2024
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    The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created...
    30 KB (4,101 words) - 03:53, 13 December 2023
  • office "during the King's pleasure" or "during the Governor-General's pleasure". Conventionally, the governor-general follows the advice of the prime minister...
    51 KB (6,707 words) - 11:03, 11 June 2024
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    John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (category Barons in the Peerage of England)
    1297 the Sheriff of Dorset was ordered to provide housing within Sherborne Castle for John and his wife "to live in during the king's pleasure". He was...
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    Samuel Rutherford (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    before the Commission and prohibited, 27 July, from exercising ministerial office, and ordered to reside in Aberdeen during the King's pleasure. During this...
    34 KB (3,530 words) - 21:27, 2 July 2024
  • court-martial at Jamaica, dismissed from the command of the Lark, and cashiered during the king's pleasure. In October 1759 the board of admiralty submitted that...
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    sovereignty during the King's incapacity. A contrasting opinion was held by the prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, who argued that, in the absence...
    60 KB (6,603 words) - 09:04, 4 July 2024
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    in 3,000 [pounds] to the king, and 3,000 to the archbishop; to be imprisoned during the king's pleasure; and, to make submission". 3 How.S.T. at 818–19...
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  • giving surety to repair to the burgh of Edinburgh and there remain during the king's pleasure (ib. p. 712). On 9 February he appeared, and bound himself not...
    6 KB (930 words) - 20:50, 10 May 2024
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    John Eliot (statesman) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    ordered to be imprisoned during the King's pleasure and till he had made submission. This he steadfastly refused. While some of the prisoners appear to have...
    15 KB (1,772 words) - 15:22, 28 December 2023
  • are not subject to review by the Senate. All members of the staff serve "at the pleasure of the President". Since 1995, the president has been required...
    52 KB (6,086 words) - 23:43, 1 July 2024
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    John Fisher (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    imprisoned during the King's pleasure. Subsequently, a pardon was granted him on payment of a fine of 300 pounds. The same session of Parliament passed the First...
    47 KB (5,038 words) - 00:49, 30 June 2024
  • Ralph de Sandwych (" custos civitatis London ") to occupy during the King's pleasure. I presume the property was vested in Ralph de Sandwych, in his official...
    14 KB (2,101 words) - 14:05, 29 May 2024
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    Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    by the House of Lords in May 1624 and was sentenced to lose all his offices, to pay a heavy fine and to be imprisoned during the King's pleasure. However...
    10 KB (1,011 words) - 12:30, 2 July 2024
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    reappointment as lord chief justice of the king's bench, not as formerly during the king's pleasure, but during good behaviour (quamdiu se bene gesserit)...
    13 KB (1,872 words) - 21:16, 15 November 2023
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    Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    another. The King commands the Earl to inquire who has it, and its tenure; and if his right is insufficient, to give Donnchadh the land during the king's pleasure...
    76 KB (10,060 words) - 12:51, 10 May 2024
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    by King John to Thomas de Galweya. Thomas was ordered in 1207 to deliver the castle (castellum) to William de Cauntelow to keep during the King's pleasure...
    9 KB (1,380 words) - 07:48, 22 October 2023
  • Robert de Auberville (category Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports)
    had during the king's pleasure" was ordered to be given up by the Constable to John de Gatesden on 18 March 1230. In the spring of 1230 the King made...
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