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Star Chamber

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Date: 1486-1641
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central) > Court of Star Chamber
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C38176 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O48738 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1486-1508: papers rel to Star Chamber jurisdiction
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS V b 205
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 436
2
1561: expenses of the diets, Easter term
Leeds University Library, Special Collections
426
NRA 25809 Leeds Univ Lib
3
1580-1633: fee books
The National Archives
PRO 30/38
4
1593-95: register of certificates
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 37045
5
1594-1603: accounts
Madresfield Court
NRA 5234 Lygon

See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [67a]
6
1596-1619: reports
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS V a 133
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 380
7
1597-1630: reports and cases
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS X d 336-7
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 457-8
8
1624-40: reports
Harvard University: Law School
MS 1128
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 615
9
1625-28: reports
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS V b 70
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 424
10
1631-41: entry book of affidavits
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS V a 278
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 397
11
1637: cases rel to Puritanism
Folger Shakespeare Library
MS V a 248
See Baker, English legal MSS in USA, 394