Star Chamber Cases: Showing What Cases Properly Belong to the Cognizance of That Courty

An excerpt from the beginning of the Introduction:
THE Court of Star Chamber "is now," says Lord Coke, "and of ancient time hath been called the Chamber of the Stars, the Star Chamber, the Starred Chamber, in respect the roof of the court is garnished with golden stars. In all records in Latin it is called camera stellata." The Council itself, whether Parliament was sembled or not, held its sittings in the "Starred Chamber," situated in the outermost quadrangle of the Palace, next the bank ...