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Court of Star Chamber
a. More fully Court of Star Chamber. An English court of civil and criminal jurisdiction which developed in the late 15th cent. from the judicial sittings of the King's Council in the Star Chamber at Westminster, trying especially those cases affecting the interests of the Crown. Now historical.The judges were the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Privy Seal, and any peers who chose to attend. It became noted for arbitrary and oppressive judgements and was abolished by an Act of the Long Parliament in 1641.
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Starred Chamber1397
Star Chamber1487
1487 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1487 m. 10 Pro camera stellata. An acte geving the court of Starchamber aucthority to punnyshe dyvers mydemeanors [sic].
1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. ccxiiv Therfore loke the acte of counsell made in the starre chambre for the town of Glowcester.
1550 Proclam. Edward VI 24 Sept. in All Proclam. sette Furthe (1551) f. lxxxv The first presentor and partie greued, shall haue their remedy..before the Kynges highnes priuie counsaill, or any twoo of theim, the Starre Chamber, his graces Courtes of the Exchequer, Kinges Benche or Common Place.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 64 As the Chancerie had the Pretorian power for Equitie; So the Star-chamber had the Censorian power for Offences, vnder the degree of Capitall.
1692 J. Wilson Vindiciæ Carolinæ 21 The taking away the several Courts of the Star-chamber.
1764 C. Churchill Gotham ii. 23 Curs'd Star-Chambers made, or rul'd the law.
1793 T. Hay Serm. 10 The decrees of the Star-chamber were rigorously supplied by the establishment of numerous inferior tribunals.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 166 The excesses of the Star Chamber..had faded from the minds of men.
1867 G. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 8 The triune despotism of the Privy Council, the Star-Chamber, the Court of High Commission.
1913 Amer. Hist. Rev. 18 729 If any official or any subject..should misdemean himself..the Court of Star Chamber had power to examine and punish him.
2007 W. M. Abbott in B. Sharp & M. C. Fissel Law & Authority Early Mod. Eng. 173 It was, however, also caused by the king's having signed, on July 5, bills for the abolition of Star Chamber and the High Commission.
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