What is "chancelleries"

Usage examples of "chancelleries".

He was the only one sufficiently clever to know how to profit by it, having it circulate among the chancelleries of all the Christian world.

Given a few more days of life, and he would have jeopardized his right of succession and set half-a-dozen European chancelleries by the ears--and all for love!

No, not if in all the chancelleries of all the Christian kingdoms, Byzantium included, there was a letter in circulation that this Prester John has written to you, to you alone, recognizing you as his only equal, and inviting you to join your two kingdoms.

But it's in Latin because it's meant to convince not Manuel but the chancelleries of the Latin kings and the pope!

Finally, they passed the open-air market and entered Chancellery Square, where the Chancelleries loomed and Lionkeep's shadow darkened the avenues.

There were always countless questions to answer and decisions to make, and endless invitations to tea at the chancelleries, where the ministers interrogated her for insight into her husband.

It was never called that any more, not since the king had abolished the chancelleries years ago.

In his paranoia he had crushed the chancelleries, and in doing so he had become a tyrant, imprisoning the long-dead Baron Glass and other good men and taking their wealth for his own.

When I write my introduction to his Collected Works I shall embellish that statement by pointing out that the shadow of the Corsican Ogre had but lately faded from the chancelleries of Europe, that the Industrial Revolution was in full flower in England, that Byron had been accused of incest by his wife, that Russia's millions still groaned under the knout, and that in Portland, Maine, the nine-year-old Longfellow had not, so far, written a line.

It was those cabinets and chancelleries in which he was planning his future, for Christ's sake!