The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance

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Ti­tle: The Star-​Cham­ber, Vol­ume 1 An His­tor­ical Ro­mance

Au­thor: W. Har­ri­son Ainsworth

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THE STAR-​CHAM­BER;

AN HIS­TOR­ICAL RO­MANCE,

BY W. HAR­RI­SON AINSWORTH, ESQ.

AU­THOR OF “WIND­SOR CAS­TLE,” &C.

IN TWO VOL­UMES.

VOL. I.

LEIPZIG

BERN­HARD TAUCH­NITZ

1854.

CON­TENTS OF VOL­UME I.

CHAP­TER

I. The Three Cranes in the Vin­try II. Sir Giles Mom­pes­son and his part­ner III. The French or­di­nary IV. A Star-​Cham­ber vic­tim V. Jo­ce­lyn Mounchensey VI. Provo­ca­tion VII. How Lord Roos ob­tained Sir Fran­cis Mitchell's sig­na­ture VI­II. Of Lupo Vulp, Cap­tain Blud­der, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's oth­er Myr­mi­dons IX. The Let­ters-​Patent X. The 'pren­tices and their lead­er XI. John Wolfe XII. The Ar­rest and the Res­cue XI­II. How Jo­ce­lyn Mounchensey en­coun­tered a masked horse­man on Stam­ford Hill XIV. The May-​Queen and the Pu­ri­tan's Daugh­ter XV. Hugh Calve­ley XVI. Of the sign giv­en by the Pu­ri­tan to the As­sem­blage XVII. A rash promise XVI­II. How the promise was can­celled XIX. Theobalds' Palace XX. King James the First XXI. Con­se­quences of the Pu­ri­tan's warn­ing XXII. Wife and Moth­er-​in-​Law XXI­II. The Tress of Hair XXIV. The Foun­tain Court XXV. Sir Thomas Lake XXVI. The forged Con­fes­sion XXVII. The Pu­ri­tan's Prison XXVI­II. The Se­cret XXIX. Luke Hat­ton

“I will make a Star-​Cham­ber mat­ter of it.” MER­RY WIVES OF WIND­SOR.