Les Reportes Del Cases in Camera Stellata, 1593 to 1609: From the Original Ms. of John Hawarde

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One of 250 copies privately printed for Alfred Morrison, Esquire. With a comprehensive introduction. The Court of Star Chamber was established by the Crown in 1487 to try offences dealing with the safety of the state before a council. Its scope expanded over time to include a wider array of criminal matters and a limited number of civil matters, such as suits between corporations and prize cases. In its final years the court was infamous for cruelty, arbitrary nature and illegal extensions of power. It was abolished in 1641.
 

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Seite lii - The Records* of this Court consist of Bills, Answers, Depositions, and other proceedings. They are of great importance as illustrating both public and private history. None of the Orders or Decrees are known to exist. In the Report of a Committee of the House of Lords made in 1719, it is stated that "the last notice of them that could be got was that they were in a house in St. Bartholomew's Close, London.
Seite xlvii - So in the presence of his great majesty, the which is the sun of honour and glory, the shining of those stars is put out, they not having any power to pronounce any sentence in this court, for the judgment is the king's only ; but by way of advice...
Seite 431 - Yea;' which the son quickly performed, and saved unto himself his father's...
Seite 420 - ... and also shall be set upon the pillory in some open market town or other open place, and there to have both his ears cut off and also his nostrils to be slit and cut and seared with a hot iron, so as they may remain for a perpetual note or mark of his falsehood...
Seite liii - Court do now cease, and the proceedings, censures and decrees of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burden to the subjects, and the means to introduce an arbitrary power and government...
Seite liii - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and- have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...
Seite lii - Charles 1, founding upon records now lost, tells us that ' about the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth years of that king (Henry 7) these cases were more often heard before the President of the Council than before the Chancellor, Treasurer, or Privy Seal, whereby it is most manifest, by the subsequent as by the precedent practice, that the Court then sat not by virtue of that statute, the president 1 Pp.
Seite xlvii - Court sat five continual days in a chair of state elevated above the table about which his Lords sat; and after that long and patient hearing, and the opinions particularly given of his great Council, he pronounced a sentence more accurately eloquent, judiciously grave, and honourably just, to the satisfaction of all the hearers and of all the lovers of justice, than all the records extant in this Kingdom can declare to have been at any former time done by any of his royal progenitors.
Seite xli - ... as to when and how the Court of Chancery became a separate tribunal from that of the Council. The judicial functions of the Council would seem to have been in aid of the common law, and not, as in the case of the Chancellor's jurisdiction, entirely outside it. Thus, to quote Mr. Dicey, " whenever, in fact, either from defect of legal authority to give judgment, or from want of the might necessary to carry their decisions into effect, the law courts were likely to prove inefficient, then the Council...
Seite 431 - Will you give such land to the maintenance of lights to our Lady ! ' The sound was again, ' Yea.' Whereupon he boldly asked him many such questions The son and heir standing by, and hearing his land going away so fast by his father's word,

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