The Star Chamber
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Excerpt from The Star Chamber: Notices of the Court and Its Proceedings; With a Few Additional Notes of the High Commission The Court of Star Chamber and that of the High Commission having for upwards of a century held a most arbitrary and unconstitutional control in England, it has been thought useful to concentrate some of the scattered notices of these Courts and of the variety of the cases entertained. Some account of the Court of High Commission has already been published, the following pages therefore will be devoted to the Star Chamber. Rush worth says, "there is little mention made of the Star Chamber Court, either in reports or treatises of the Law, except now and then, dispersedly in some one or two causes in an age." But there are now in the British Museum, at the Rolls, and in the Bodleian and Cambridge University Libraries, several volumes of Star Chamber cases, from which the following pages have been chiefly compiled, and there are at the Rolls Record Office many hundreds of bundles of proceedings which were for many years entombed at the Chapter house, but are now being arranged and catalogued under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. Five large volumes of Indexes refer to these bundles. One of them is an Index, (from A to H) to suits in the reign of Henry VIII. and the other four to about 43,000 suits in the reign of Elizabeth. The bundles contain bills, answers, interrogatories, depositions, &c., but no decrees. It is doubtless true that in the early days of this Court it served, as Sir Thomas Smith says, "to bridle such stout noblemen and gentlemen who would offer wrong by force to any meaner man, and cannot be content to demand and defend the right by order of law." The early cases thus shew that the business of the Court was chiefly with noblemen, sheriffs, abbots, corporations and persons of the higher classes, and also with rioters and persons using "acts of violence," and taking forcible possession of lands. In course of time, however, the meshes of the net were contracted, and nothing escaped the power of the court, - it fined a nobleman £30,000, and sent three poor fiddlers to the whipping post. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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