Which preposition to use with councillors

of Occurrences 75%

He is also the Lord Lieutenant and a County Councillor of Berkshire.

in Occurrences 12%

Why, Master Churms, I had thought that you had been my father's great councillor in all these actions. CHURMS.

of Occurrences 9%

On the morning of the 2d of December, at the very hour at which the Representatives of the Right had gone from M. Daru's to the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, the Councillors of State betook themselves to the Hotel on the Quai d'Orsay.

to Occurrences 5%

"The director of the observatory at Pulkova has the military rank of general, and he is privy councillor to the czar.

at Occurrences 3%

Achille was a parliamentary councillor at the age of twenty-two years, president of the Parliament of Paris at thirty-six, and succeeded his father-in-law, Christophe de Thou, as first president in 1582.

in Occurrences 3%

It hath been duly laid before our Councillors in your presence and unanimously confirmed by them.

for Occurrences 3%

"Each arrondissement will elect a councillor for each twenty thousand of inhabitants, and an extra one for a surplus of more than ten thousand.

from Occurrences 2%

Amidst a mass of other points upon which directions are given, we notice the following: the necessity of keeping secret the matters in course of deliberation; the prohibition to councillors from receiving, either directly or indirectly, anything in the shape of a douceur from the parties in any suit; and the forbidding all attorneys from receiving any bribe or claiming more than the actual expenses of a journey and other just charges.

with Occurrences 2%

or is it perhaps from some bewigged councillor with knee-buckles glinting in the firelight as he waits for the subtle heart-warming of an apple toddy?

without Occurrences 1%

Never before had appeal been made to this decree; it was not fresh in the minds of the Savii and the six most venerated Councillors without whose acquiescence the mandate of the Doge was powerless, and they had listened to the bold declaration with a surprise not unmingled with resentment, that so young a man should make, in their presence, an assertion touching matters of State which they could neither affirm nor deny!

by Occurrences 1%

He cursed the man Charles Stuart, and every councillor by name; he cursed the Persecutors, from his Highness of York down to one Welch of Borrowstoneness, who had been the means of his first imprisonment; he cursed the indulged and tolerated ministers; and he cursed every man of the hill-folk whose name he could remember.

than Occurrences 1%

After the battle, he resumes his life as a prince and it is more for his shrewdness as a councillor than his teaching as God that he is honoured and revered.

into Occurrences 1%

Someone challenged the intrusion of non-Privy Councillors into that sacred precinct.

on Occurrences 1%

The group of Councillors on the dais swayed and parted against that wonderful background of Tintoret, the dead Christ and the two Doges reverently kneeling in proof of the devotion of this Most Serene Republic.

about Occurrences 1%

He had himself removed to Vincennes, called his councillors about him, and gave them his last royal instructions.

Which preposition to use with  councillors