Senate

Now when the king came to Tyrus, three men that were sent from the senate pleaded the cause before him:

They went therefore to Rome, which was a very great journey, and came into the senate, where they spake and said.

For they have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done the like, to bring them a licence from the senate.

Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house, wherein three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily, consulting alway for the people, to the end they might be…

And this is the copy of the epistle which the senate wrote back again in tables of brass, and sent to Jerusalem, that there they might have by them a memorial of peace and…