England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber

Robert Maugham

John Hawarde

Dramatic and Musical Compositions ; Engravings, Sculpture, Maps, &c., Including the Piracy and Transfer of Copyright ; with a Historical View, and Disquisitions on the Principles and Effects of the Laws

A Treatise on the Laws of Literary Property, Comprising the Statutes and Cases Relating to Books, Manuscripts, Lectures

From the original MS. of John Hawarde edited by William Paley Baildon

Les Reportes del Cases in Camera Stellata 1593 to 1609

One of 250 copies privately printed for Alfred Morrison, Esquire. With a comprehensive introduction. The Court of Star Chamber was established by the Crown in 1487 to try offences dealing with the safety of the state before a council. Its scope expanded over time to include a wider array of criminal matters and a limited number of civil matters, such as suits between corporations and prize cases. In its final years the court was infamous for cruelty, arbitrary nature and illegal extensions of power. It was abolished in 1641.

John Hawarde

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