Star-Chamber

The non-conforming Protestants whose spirit animates the Constitution were looking to assure that nothing in the history of this country would resemble the Star-Chamber proceedings under Charles I.

David Bromwich: Follow the Evidence 2009

Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow,

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

The Earl was not haled before the Star-Chamber as was proposed in some quarters; it was not till the following June that he was brought before a commission of the Privy Council for enquiry and censure; and some two months later he was released.

England under the Tudors

Star-Chamber, given against John Lilborne, is illegal, and against the

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

The Puritans, who fled from it as from the Dragon himself, soon had their Star-Chamber too, their whipping-posts, their death-scaffolds, and their sentences of exile for those who dissented from their orthodoxy and their order.

Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Joseph A. Seiss

Throgmorton, who had certainly been in communication with Wyatt, was nevertheless unanimously acquitted by a jury, and the result was hailed with acclamation by the populace though the jurymen were summoned before the Star-Chamber and fined.

England under the Tudors

Before his secret tribunals more than one Mongolian has been hurried in Star-Chamber fashion, and never seen afterward.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

In the _Star-Chamber_ (where if the crime not extraordinary, it was fine enough for one to be sued in so chargable a Court) He was observed always to concur with the severest side, and to infuse more

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

On arriving at what is called the "Star-Chamber," our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

That the attitude of Parliament was not due to any subserviency is emphasised by the open attack in this session on the granting of Monopolies to the Queen's favourites, which sent Wentworth who made it to the Star-Chamber -- and found for him early and popular pardon instead of severe punishment.

England under the Tudors