Great Seal Definition

Great Seal Sentence Examples

• For affixing the great seal to this declaration he was threatened with impeachment by the Commons.

• He became by a singular arrangement, only repeated in the case of Lord Ellenborough, a member of the cabinet, and remained in that position through various changes of administration for nearly fifteen years, and, although he persistently refused the chancellorship, he acted as Speaker of the House of Lords while the Great Seal was in commission.

• John accepted the Articles on the same day and at once the great seal was affixed to them.

• There are at present in existence four copies of Magna Carta, sealed with the great seal of King John, and several unsealed copies.

• In April 1673 he was appointed lord privy seal, and was disappointed at not obtaining the great seal the same year on the removal of Shaftesbury.