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