A Star-Chamber victim.

The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1

by William Harrison AINSWORTH (1805 - 1882)

A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so. As the mix of fact and fiction unfolds in this tale, the court is beginning to lose favor during the reign of James I as the church once again increased its power, while Parliament's power decreased as the monarch tried to rule without them. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Listen next episodes of The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1:
A rash promise. , Consequences of the Puritan's warning. , How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill. , How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature. , How the promise was cancelled. , Hugh Calveley. , Jocelyn Mounchensey. , John Wolfe. , King James the First. , Luke Hatton. , Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons. , Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage. , Provocation. , Sir Thomas Lake. , The Arrest and the Rescue. , The forged Confession. , The Fountain Court. , The Letters-Patent. , The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter. , The 'prentices and their leader. , The Puritan's Prison. , The Secret. , The Tress of Hair. , Theobalds' Palace. , Wife and Mother-in-Law.