On one page, an arrow pointed at a passage containing these words: "Yesterday a warrant passed the privy seal for paying a million of money out of the Exchequer for the use of the fleet".
The move to seek a judicial review could derail the government's plan to put its royal charter before the privy council for the Queen's approval next week.
Pitt himself chose the secondary post of lord privy seal, for which he was created earl of Chatham, but this meant abandoning the House of Commons and the possibility of influencing it directly by his oratory there.
This week universities and science minister David Willetts made the announcement that 10 higher education colleges have met the criteria to be awarded university title and he has recommended them to be put forward to Privy Council for formal approval.
They have written to Maria Miller, the culture secretary, urging her to send parliament's royal charter for press regulation, agreed by the three main political parties and Hacked Off, to the privy council for approval.
That's the inevitable outcome of the failed legal action by newspaper and magazine publishers in their bid to prevent the cross-party royal charter from going forward from the privy council for the Queen's approval.
Industry bodies representing the publishers have been granted an emergency high court hearing for an injunction at 10.30am, just hours before the government's press regulation royal charter – backed by the three main parties and Hacked Off campaigners – is set to go before the privy council for sealing by the Queen on Wednesday afternoon.
On 20 May he was brought before the privy council for questioning; 10 days later he was fatally stabbed through the right eye in a Deptford lodging-house – a dissident author (in one reading of this sequence of events) disappearing in a huddle of snoops and spies, those "climbing followers", to borrow an ominous phrase from The Jew of Malta, who sought advancement in the downfall of others.
Beadle remained a Privy Counsellor for the rest of his life.
Intending to gain skills needed to become a privy councillor for the Thembu royal house, Mandela began his secondary education at Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Engcobo, a Western-style institution that was the largest school for black Africans in Thembuland.
