Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Committee of Council
There is no reason to suppose that wallpole and the moral burrow wigs were invited to the great council on this occasion any more than the opposition is invited on similar occasions now second mention is frequently made of a body of which all traces have now disappeared it is called sometimes committee of council and sometimes lords of the council. This body was evidently more restricted than the privy council, less restricted than the cabinet council and it was different from the cabinet in composition. The preliminary negotiations of the treaty of utrecht were first disclosed to the lords at the cockpit and repeatedly debated by them foreign envoys argued their case before them. They authorized the instructions to lord strafford on his important mission
