= COUNCIL-BOARD. a. lit. † b. The Privy Council. Obs.
1621. G. Hakewill, K. David’s Vow, 230. They may sit with me, as it were at Counsel-table.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. (1843), 28/1. The council-table and star-chamber enlarge their jurisdictions to a vast extent.
1678. Marvell, Growth Popery, Wks. 1875, IV. 325. How improper would it seem of a privy-counsellor if in the House of Commons he should not justify the most arbitrary proceedings of the council-table.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 61, ¶ 2. Pronounced in the most solemn manner at the Council-Table.
1841. Penny Cycl., XIX. 23/2. The privy council, or council table, consists of the assembly of the king’s privy councillors for matters of state.
