However, his principal weapon was the Court of Star Chamber.

The Court of Star Chamber was used in the 1600s and tried people charged with serious crimes without a jury.

Boyle was summoned to appear at the Court of Star Chamber.

This originally vested in the Court of Star Chamber.

The high court of Star Chamber by Michael Stuckey.

Neile sat regularly in the courts of Star Chamber and High Commission.

During his stay in London he observed many political figures and witnessed events at the Court of Star Chamber.

A second development at much the same time was the assumption by the Court of Star Chamber of a criminal jurisdiction in libel.

There were one or two cases of torture after this, but in 1641 the Court of Star Chamber was abolished and with it torture.

However in the following year he brought a case in the Court of Star Chamber against Bott, accusing him or fraud and forgery.

In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.

Upon his arrest on information from a Stationers' Company informant, Lilburne was brought before the Court of Star Chamber.

June - King James raises money through a Benevolence; non-contributors are arraigned before the Court of Star Chamber.

A battle ensued, only to be broken up by the Mayor of Hull, and settled in the Court of Star Chamber - three years later.

His widow was ordered by the Court of Star Chamber to be imprisoned at the Queen's pleasure, and heavily fined, as were others who had been involved.

Not since 1641 and the abolition of the feared Court of Star Chamber have citizens been tried for serious criminal offences in the absence of a jury.

He broke the power of the Barons by reviving the Court of Star Chamber to try the Barons if they broke the law.

These were the Court of Star Chamber and the Court of Requests, both attended by certain members of the Privy Council.

It was explicitly modelled on the English Court of Star Chamber, and it was often referred to simply as Star Chamber.

In England, criminal conspiracy laws were first held to include combinations in restraint of trade in the Court of Star Chamber early in the 17th century.

On account of the Lilburn Trial, Parliament abolished the inquisitorial Court of Star Chamber and went further in giving him generous reparation.

King Charles made extensive use of the Court of Star Chamber to prosecute dissenters, including the Puritans who fled to New England.

King Charles I used the Court of Star Chamber as Parliamentary substitute during the eleven years of Personal Rule, when he ruled without a Parliament.

Wolfe challenged the raid in the Court of Star Chamber: on 18 May 1584, he issued a bill of complaint accusing Day of illegally damaging his property.

A detailed account survives of how this worked in the mid-Tudor period, as there was litigation over a dispute at the election of 1559 in the Court of Star Chamber.