Talk:Henry Killigrew (diplomat)

Council of State membership
Killigrew was appointed an English member of the Dutch Council of State on the basis of the Treaty of Nonsuch of 1587. He could never be a member of the States-General, because the States-General consisted of representatives appointed by the Provincial States of the several provinces who had no reason to appoint an Englishman. The concept of "state" in "Council of State" is a different one than the concept of "States" in "States-General" (or Provincial States, for that matter). The latter refers to what is known as "estates"; the former to the same thing as the "state" in the Council of State of the English Commonwealth. Hence singular and not plural in the name of the institution.--Ereunetes (talk) 23:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)