Sentence examples for royal policy from inspiring English sources

In 1534, however, royal policy changed radically.

By this device the king effectively muzzled the magistrates' criticisms of royal policy.

Burghley accepted royal policy, but Puritan opposition prevented a definite conclusion to the Anjou affair.

To underscore their opposition to royal policy, the magnates went into exile in Granada for two years.

The council served at this time as merely a bureaucratic body for the execution of royal policy.

Meanwhile in France, Philip IV's councillor Guillaume de Nogaret had taken Flotte's place as the leader of an actively anti-papal royal policy.

The use of intendants, who held neither venal nor hereditary office, was one way in which the limiting effect of the sale of office on royal policies could be circumvented.

During the Long Parliament, which convened in November 1640, Hampden became the principal lieutenant of Parliamentary leader John Pym in a vigorous attack on royal policies, and he was one of the five members who successfully evaded arrest by the king in January 1642.

This book, the Eikon Basilike (Greek: the "Royal Portrait"), contained an apologia for royal policies, and it proved an effective piece of royalist propaganda.

At the Parliament of Winchester in 1279, the archbishop compromised and Parliament invalidated any regulation of the council dealing with royal policies or power.

The royal parks policy on protests inside their grounds stipulates that "no entertainment or other performances may take place".