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	The Richard III Foundation
		Imbedded in the chamber walls are the remnants of indentation in the stone for large candles or torches.
		On the east side of the wall was a fireplace and cupboard recesses, a doorway that led to a latrine on the west tower, and a doorway to a small vaulted chamber.
		On the first floor there also were four chambers but they did not appear to be as lavish as the upper floor giving speculation that those occupying the second floor would have been more important or of higher rank.
	richard111.com /Middleham.htm (3238 words)

	FanFiction.Net - Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Privy councilor, a member of the privy council.
		Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys.
		Privy seal or Privy signet, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=privy (301 words)

	Archaeology of a San Franscisco Neighborhood: Artifacts, Sanitation
		Unlike the rest of the toilet set however, the chamber pot was kept hidden in cupboards, commodes, washstands, or in the poorest of households, possibly under the bed.
		Once a house lot was connected to town water and sewage, the privy was often abandoned for the convenience of facilities closer to the house and less pungent in odor.
		Privy holes filled with household refuse are among the most useful archaeological features sought by archaeologists working in a city, since their artifacts provide insights into the lives of the people who used them.
	www.sonoma.edu /asc/sfarchaeology/Artifacts/sanitation.htm (415 words)

	Scott's privy page glossary
		PRIVY: French for private, this word is also synonymous with the word outhouse.
		PRIVY SEEDS: This is a descriptive term invented by privy diggers.
		Privy seeds are found in the USE LAYER of many PITS and simply are indigestible seeds, like strawberries, and raspberries, from the user's diet.
	www.privymaster.org /GlossaryII.htm (2092 words)

	Privy chamber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A privy chamber was a private apartment in a royal residence, particularly in England.
		The gentlement of the privy chamber were servants to the Crown, who were to wait and attend on the King and Queen at Court, in their various activities and diversions.
		Six of these were appointed by the Lord Chamberlain, together with a peer, and the Master of Ceremonies, to attend to all ambassadors from crowned heads in their public entries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Privy_chamber (169 words)

	Elizabeth I - ninemsn Encarta
		Divisions were circumvented by ensuring that the members of the inner court circle and of the privy council were largely the same people or members of their immediate families.
		Here the Queen's gender was a positive advantage, since, to augment the ranks of her former Hatfield servants, she appointed the wives and daughters of her privy counsellors to the positions of ladies and gentlewomen in the privy chamber, thereby reducing the scope for conflict at court.
		Dudley was admitted to the Privy Council in October 1562, and finally ennobled as Earl of Leicester in 1564.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555497_2/Elizabeth_I.html (3118 words)

	Definition of Privy from dictionary.net
		Privy chamber, a private apartment in a royal residence.
		Privy seal or signed, the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
		Privy verdict, a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused.
	www.dictionary.net /privy (242 words)

	Guild of St. George - Elizabeth's Household: A Batchelors Thesis
		The Privy Chamber "marked the frontier between the public and private lives of the monarch; institutionally its staff alone served both of the monarch's two bodies: the actual 'body natural' and 'the majesty of the body politic'".
		Henry had used the Henchmen and the servants of the Privy Chamber as both political and personal servants, but Elizabeth preferred to be able to retreat from politics when she wished and "reinforced the barrier [between the private and the political] by a ferocious discipline.
		Even the practical tasks in the hall and chamber were "designed more to impress the viewer than merely to get the job done." This combination of function and formality allowed Elizabeth to maintain her position as a powerful monarch, because it separated her from ordinary mortals.
	www.guildofstgeorge.com /eliz_household.htm (11941 words)

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		Because no privies from the colonial era remain, pits in the ground are the only indicators that archaeologists have to go by when deciphering the role these structures played in eighteenth-century Williamsburg (1930’s restoration archaeologists, on the other hand, seemed satisfied with the assumption that every house had one or more).
		The only deep privy found in Williamsburg is that of the Thomas Everard House, whose six-foot pit contained cups, saucers, and pipes in addition to its traditional contents, suggesting that drinking and smoking went on inside as well.
		These chamber pots’ great value may have prompted their owners to take better care of them, thus leaving intact examples that are now in museums instead of at archaeology sites.
	www.resnet.wm.edu /~rfmilf (3013 words)

	The Star Chamber.
		Star Chamber stood for swiftness and power; it was not a competitor of the common law so much as a limitation on it - a reminder that high state policy could not safely be entrusted to a system so chancy as English law.
		It is popularly supposed that the star chamber, after an existence of about fifty years, disappeared towards the end of the reign of Henry VIII, the powers obtained by the act of 1487 being not lost, but reverting to the council as a whole.
		The jurisdiction of the star chamber was as vague as its constitution.
	www.geocities.com /tthor.geo/starchamber.html (1801 words)

	Privies 101 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The household privy was in many ways an early facsimile of what would evolve into our traditional bathroom, in that it housed many of the medications that were taken daily.
		Privies were used by all members of the family with a smaller seat hole for the little ones.
		Sometimes a person would not want to make the trek out to the privy for various reasons such as inclement weather or maybe just too tired, so a chamber pot would temporarily hold the waste until it could be dumped into the privy.
	www.privymaster.org /PAGEI.htm (378 words)

	Historic Royal Palaces (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The ceiling of the Presence Chamber, painted by William Kent in 1724.
		The Privy Chamber served as an audience chamber of a more exclusive character than the Presence Chamber and to which fewer people were admitted.
		The Privy Chamber has another magnificent ceiling painted by William Kent in 1723, showing Mars and Minerva surrounded by the arts and sciences.
	www.hrp.org.uk /webcode/content.asp?ID=402 (1119 words)

	Judicial Committee
		The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the court of final appeal for the UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council or, in the case of Republics, to the Judicial Committee.
		It is also the court of final appeal for determining "devolution issues" under the United Kingdom devolution statutes of 1998 and it has certain other domestic jurisdiction within the United Kingdom.
		The Judicial Committee sits in the Privy Council Chamber in Downing Street.
	www.privy-council.org.uk /output/page5.asp (134 words)

	Explore the hill - Privy Council Chamber \| A Treasure to Explore: Parliament Hill (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
		Visit the Privy Council Chamber, as re-created in the style of the early years of the Confederation.
		Still, the historic character of the chamber survived to remind the Cabinet of its origins.
		During the 1920s, a proposal was considered to enlarge the chamber by removing the west wall, but the plan was never carried out.
	www.parliamenthill.gc.ca /text/exploreprivychamber_e.html (366 words)

	The Richard III Foundation
		Imbedded in the chamber walls are the remnants of indentation in the stone for large candles or torches.
		On the east side of the wall was a fireplace and cupboard recesses, a doorway that led to a latrine on the west tower, and a doorway to a small vaulted chamber.
		On the first floor there also were four chambers but they did not appear to be as lavish as the upper floor giving speculation that those occupying the second floor would have been more important or of higher rank.
	www.richard111.com /Middleham.htm (3238 words)

	Lady-in-waiting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ladies of the privy chamber were the ones who were closest to the queen, but most of the other women were the maids of honour.
		Female relatives were often appointed because they could be trusted confidantes to the queen; Lady Margaret Lee was a Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Anne Boleyn, just as Lady Elizabeth Seymour-Cromwell was to Queen Jane Seymour.
		The duties of ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor court were to act as royal companions, and to accompany the Queen wherever she went.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lady-in-waiting (731 words)

	Royal-Arse-Wiper
		The most important innovation in the administration of the royal chamber in the sixteenth century was the creation of the post of the Gentleman in the Privy Chamber on the French model (gentilhomme de la chambre).
		The Privy Chamber became a separate household department under the command of one of the two chief gentlemen who also assumed the title of the groom of the stole.
		The gentlemen were assisted by the grooms of the privy chamber who, under the supervision of the gentlemen ushers, attended to the cleanliness of the rooms.
	royal-arse-wiper.web-word.eu /start/universalis.php?ref=Royal-Arse-Wiper&dom=web-word.eu&page=403 (636 words)

	Court Life
		Elizabeth was thus well guarded and access to her privy chambers was strictly controlled by her Gentleman Usher.
		Elizabeth tended to spend most of her day in the Privy Chamber, but also had a privy garden and she loved to take brisk walks in the great outdoors, accompanied by her maids of honor.
		Her ladies would bring several plates of food to her Privy chambers, food which had been ceremoniously checked for poison, and after taking what she wanted, the food would be shared amongst her ladies.
	www.elizabethi.org /us/court (1784 words)

	privy digging Musings of a Privy Digger nasa
		It is rare not to find shards of chamberpots when we dig in a privy, because no Victorian bedroom would have been complete without the "necessaries" either tucked under the bed or beside it in the commode, (a commode was a low cabinet sometimes fitted with a top with a hole in it).
		We regularly find privies, judging from the artifacts, that were still being used well into the 20th century.
		In the early privies, those dating before 1840, we find very little in the way of artifacts, usually only organic waste (kitchen scraps, bones and seeds), window glass, and shards of pottery or porcelain.
	www.glswrk-auction.com /013.htm (2199 words)

	The Elizabethan "foreign office." (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Elizabethan secretariat was adjacent to the Privy Council chamber in the thousand-room, twenty-three-acre Whitehall Palace.
		In an "outer chamber" or waiting room, the mass of daily petitioners waited to be invited into the second-level secretariat and council chamber by the keeper of the council chamber.(13)
		In addition, the almost dally appearances of six to ten lords of the Privy Council, plus a host of petitioners, agents of foreign ambassadors, departing or returning English diplomats and their staffs, couriers, posts, and other messengers doing business with the secretariat or council, show that the office was impressive in its size and organization.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-17156532.html (6136 words)

	Richard III Society--Online Library
		A Robert Brent was gentleman usher of the queen's chamber, keeper of Sandwich Castle, and verger of that town, as well as provost of the town of Middleton, in Kent, in the 1st Hen.
		In the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII.
		Among the Privy Purse expenses of Henry the Seventh is an entry of 2 l.
	www.r3.org /bookcase/wardrobe/purnote2.html (3509 words)

	Historic Royal Palaces (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Guard Chamber is so-called because it was the room in which the Yeomen of the Guard kept watch over the safety of the king, making sure that 'no idle, mean or unknown persons' entered his apartments beyond.
		The Privy Chamber was the principal ceremonial room in the palace.
		Access to the Withdrawing Room was limited to the principal secretaries of state, members of the Privy Council, the Master of Requests and the Lord Chamberlain and chief officers of the court.
	www.hrp.org.uk /webcode/content.asp?ID=412 (1993 words)

	Hotels in Turkey \| Hotels in Istanbul \| Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters \| Third Court
		A basement below originally housed the attendants to the privy chambers, who were provided other accommodation during the reign of Murat IV in a barracks next to the chambers, built for them along the third side of the court, which now houses the calligraphy and manuscript section of the museum.
		Returning to the privy chambers, the main portal leading into the chambers from the Enderun Court is known as the Fountain Door or Sadirvan Kapisi, as it leads to a porch-like room with a fountain or the Sadirvanli Sofa.
		The Chamber of the Sacred Relics was restored by Mahmut II in 1822.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=278 (1135 words)

	Chamber Pots - Port Royal Privy
		There was one privy associated with each building, except for a tavern that had two privies to accomodate its patrons (Brown, 155-56).
		Since there is no provision for a cesspool, and there is so much evidence of chamberpots, it would appear that this was a "bucket privy." Waste was deposited in containers that were later taken away to be dumped in a midden, as described by Edward Ward in 1698.
		The average house of office found in the New Street excavation was only large enough to accomodate a single user, while the Building 5 privy is a "two holer." It is thus resembles the New Street tavern, which had 2 privies in its yard.
	nautarch.tamu.edu /portroyal/chamber/Privy.HTM (691 words)

	THE VERDICTS OF EACH OF THE JURORS IN THE TRIAL OF
		Member of the Privy Chamber; Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1626 to 1641.
		Gentleman of the Privy Chamber for James I. Third son ofThomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.
		Privy Chamber to the Prince of Wales in 1610 and to the King in 1611; Vice-Chamberlain of the Queen's Household, 1626-28.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /tom.paterson/touchet/touchettrial.htm (944 words)

	John RUSSELL (1° E. Bedford)
		the privy chamber 1507; knight marshal, the Household 1523-7; knight of the body by 1527; sheriff, Som.
		Russell's appointment in the privy chamber was confirmed by Henry VIII, his junior by some six years.
		She entrusted him with the embassy to conduct Felipe from Spain, and it was perhaps on his advice that Felipe landed at Southampton instead of in the west country where feeling was strong against the marriage.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnRussell(1EBedford).htm (2111 words)

	Hotels in Turkey \| Hotels in Istanbul \| Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters \| Chambers of the Sacred Relics
		The chambers, formerly the privy chambers built in the reign of the Mehmet the Conqueror, underwent a number of changes and repeated restorations and were allocated to the storage of sacred relics by Selim the Grim, who appointed forty guards or Hasodalilar to protect them.
		This rectangular chamber was used by the chamber guards as a prayer room, whereby it was customary for them to perform ritual ablutions at the fountain and pray on the raised dais.
		It was during the reign of Mahmut II that the chamber: underwent considerable restoration am marble cases were added, together with doors, cupboards and hearth in the empir, style.
	www.exploreturkey.com /exptur.phtml?id=282 (1359 words)

	Palace Structure
		This shift from the Hall to the Chamber is reflected in the plans of the late Medieval and Renaissance palaces where the primary site of architectural innovation is in the spaces of the King's Chambers.
		The King's chambers were located on the second floor of the north range directly above those of the Queen on the first floor.
		The most private of his new apartments, the Privy Chamber, was cut off from the rest; closed to all but a handful and given a small and humble staff of its own.
	employees.oneonta.edu /farberas/arth/arth214_folder/palace_plans.html (3365 words)

	Castle Privy
		Most castle privies were crude, some having just a simple stone seat over a shaft that emptied into the moat or stream, via a latrine chute.
		Often, the chamber privies were "en suite," meaning in the sleeping area.
		There are even some privies located in the town walls so the guards would not have to return to the castle to use the privy.
	www.castles-of-britain.com /castlesk.htm (241 words)

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