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Star Chamber
A Dictionary of British History
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© A Dictionary of British History 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information)
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Star Chamber The origins of the Court of Star Chamber have been disputed, but it undoubtedly arose as an offshoot of the king's
council. The name probably derived from the fact that the king's council sat as a judicial tribunal in the ‘camera stellata’, a chamber with a starred ceiling, built in 1347 at Westminster. It became prominent under the Tudors as a court which would control ‘over‐mighty subjects’. At first popular, under the Stuarts it became hated because of its increasingly draconian rulings on libel and sedition and its savage punishments. A byword for tyranny, it was abolished by the
Long Parliament in 1640.
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