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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

by William Harrison Ainsworth

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Author
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882
Title
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
Credits
Etext produced by Charles Franks and the Distributed Proofreaders Team HTML file produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
12396
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12396
Release Date
May 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.By W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. — Author Of "Windsor Castle," &C. — In Two Volumes. — VOL. I. — Leipzig — Bernhard Tauchnitz — 1854. — "I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it." — MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. — THE STAR-CHAMBER; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE
  3. 3.CHAPTER I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry.
  4. 4.CHAPTER II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner.
  5. 5.CHAPTER III. The French ordinary.
  6. 6.CHAPTER IV. A Star-Chamber victim.
  7. 7.CHAPTER V. Jocelyn Mounchensey.
  8. 8.CHAPTER VI. Provocation.
  9. 9.CHAPTER VII. How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VIII. Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons.
  11. 11.CHAPTER IX. The Letters-Patent.
  12. 12.CHAPTER X. The 'prentices and their leader.
  13. 13.CHAPTER XI. John Wolfe.
  14. 14.CHAPTER XII. The Arrest and the Rescue.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XIII. How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIV. The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XV. Hugh Calveley.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XVI. Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVII. A rash promise.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVIII. How the promise was cancelled.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIX. Theobalds' Palace.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XX. King James the First.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XXI. Consequences of the Puritan's warning.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXII. Wife and Mother-in-Law.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXIII. The Tress of Hair.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIV. The Fountain Court.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXV. Sir Thomas Lake.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXVI. The forged Confession.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVII. The Puritan's Prison.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVIII. The Secret.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXIX. Luke Hatton. — END OF VOL. I.

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