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    Star Chamber

    place · 4 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    the Star Chamber · Star-Chamber · the Court usually called the Star-Chamber · the Star-Chamber

    in the texts

    The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

    Royal prerogative court used to punish critics of the Bishops during the personal rule, and later abolished by Act of Parliament.

    In spite of the King’s hope of bringing about a reaction with Scottish aid, he did not feel himself strong enough to refuse his assent to the Bills prepared for cutting off the powers acquired by the Tudors, and on July 5 he gave his consent to the Act for the Abolition of the Star Chamber (No.
    iii from the meeting of the long parliament to the
    The authorisation of the circulation of books in which were set forth doctrines hardly distinguishable from those of the Roman Catholics, the intercourse of the King with the Papal agents established at the Queen’s Court, and the infliction of cruel punishments, by order of the Star Chamber, upon those who maligned the Bishops or assailed their jurisdiction, spread far and wide the belief that a v …
    ii from the meeting of the third parliament of cha
    The urging of ship-money, and prosecution of some sheriffs in the Star Chamber for not levying of it.
    chapter 13

    The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

    Extraordinary royal jurisdiction exercised by the King's Council, later constrained by statutory legitimacy.

    What the Chancellor was already doing in matters of private law was now to be done by the King’s Council in the Star Chamber and in the special palatine and frontier jurisdictions.
    iv enemies in the gate
    The later orthodox doctrine, from any scientific point of view quite as arbitrary as the prerogative claims it displaced, was that this royal power or duty had exhausted itself in the establishment of the Court of Chancery, and that the jurisdiction of the Star Chamber, or rather of the king’s Council in the Star Chamber, was lawful only so far as it was created or confirmed by statute.
    iv enemies in the gate
    The development of auxiliary criminal jurisdiction in the Star Chamber was exactly parallel (as Bacon has told us) and did quite honest service for a century or more.
    v rescue and ransom

    Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John20th Century · English

    The royal tribunal before which purveyors guilty of illegally requisitioning timber for Calais's fortifications were brought in 1607.

    The guilty purveyors were brought before the Star Chamber.
    chapter 124
    After experience of its pernicious effects, the rule was condemned by the act of parliament which instituted the Star Chamber.
    iv later history of appeal and battle

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury19th Century · English

    Royal tribunal before which jurors who acquitted against the evidence were sometimes summoned.

    and many times commanded to appear in the Star-Chamber, or before the Privy Council for the matter.
    taxation an essay on the trial by jury