Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2
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140
1854
English
- Poison
- Counter-Poison
- Showing that our pleasant vices are made the whips to scourge us
- How the forged confession was produced
- A visit to Sir Giles Mompresson's habitation near the fleet
- Of the wager between the Conde de Gondemar and the Marquis of Buckingham
- A Cloud in the Horizon
- Whitehall
- Prince Charles
- The old Palace-Yard of Westminster
- The Tilt-Yard
- The Tilting Match
- The Felon Knight
- The private Cabinet of Sir Giles Mompresson
- Clement Lanyere's Story
- Sir Jocelyn's Rupture with de Gondemar
- Disgrace
- How Sir Jocelyn's Cause was espaoused by the 'prentices
- A Noble Revenge
- A Place of Refuge
- The Arrest
- The Old Fleet Prison
- How Sir Jocelyn was brought to the Fleet
- The Abduction
- The Stone Coffin
- A Secret Friend
- Showing how Judgment was given by King James in the Star Chamber in the great Cause of the Countess of Exeter against Sir Thomas and Lady Lake
- The Two Warrants
- The Silver Coffer
- How the Marriage was Interrupted
- Accusations
- Judgment
- Concluding Chapter -- Retribution
The second volume of a romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so. As the mix of fact and fiction unfolds in this tale, the court is beginning to lose favor during the reign of James I as the church once again increased its power, while Parliament's power decreased as the monarch tried to rule without them.
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