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Edited by K. J. Kesselring and Natalie Mears, Star Chamber Matters examines an early modern English court through its practices and surviving records. The essays connect the history of legal institutions with the disputes brought before them during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Contributions explore the location and interpretation of court records, sexual violence, marriage disputes, legal aid, provincial libel, marine insurance fraud and the bullion trade. These studies reveal the different people and interests that encountered the court, alongside the problems involved in reconstructing their cases.
The collection also considers contemporary knowledge of Star Chamber and its abolition in 1641. Readers interested in law and history will find case studies that show how an archive can illuminate legal procedure, social relationships and the exercise of royal authority.