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COURT OF STAR CHAMBER

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COURT OF
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STAR CHAMBER
  .—The relation between the king's council sitting as a judicial
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body and the Court of
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Star Chamber set up by the act of 3 Henry VII., c. i, is
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matter of controversy . The records of this court are nearly all of later date than this act . They consist of Bills, Answers, Depositions and similar documents, with a very few Decrees and Orders . The Record Office has published a descriptive list (No . XIII.) of a portion of these records; for specimens see Selden Society, Select Cases in the Star Chamber, 1477–1509, edited by I . S . Leadam .

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