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The big problem is that (unlike other Star Chamber classes) there are no county names in the lists.  This means that the local historians have left them untouched and the county record societies have not published them. Ascribing a county to every case may change this. It is of course not as easy as that; a case may be between two City of London merchants but relate to inheritance (and riotous entry) of a property in Hampshire.   
 
The big problem is that (unlike other Star Chamber classes) there are no county names in the lists.  This means that the local historians have left them untouched and the county record societies have not published them. Ascribing a county to every case may change this. It is of course not as easy as that; a case may be between two City of London merchants but relate to inheritance (and riotous entry) of a property in Hampshire.   
  
Every single page of this Star Chamber part of WAALT is going to change, radically and often. When visiting, refresh your pages every time.
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Every page of this, the Star Chamber part of WAALT may change, radically and often. When visiting, refresh your pages every time.
  
 
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Revision as of 10:36, 14 September 2012

This project at present barely exists. Any one with information, or who wants to join in, mail@helengood.com will find me.

Star Chamber Elizabeth, currently TNA STAC 5, consists of perhaps 100,000 documents under about 35,000 references, how many cases this represents is anybody's guess, I usually say 15,000.

In the eighteenth century the documents were divided alphabetically by the surname of the first plaintiff and listed. This was not always successful. For example the Countess of Lennox appears occassionally amongst the Cs. The manuscript lists are in four volumes, at present held on open shelves in the Map Room.

Documents in each letter were divided into bundles of forty references. This does not mean forty documents, but forty groups of between one and ten documents, with the same reference. Each bundle was given a number and each document or group of documents has a number within the bundle

STAC 5/C6/18 is Star Chamber Elizabeth, The “C” bundles. Bundle number 6, group of documents within C6, number 18

Document types B = Bill of Complaint. Dr = Demurrer. A = Answer. C = Commission. Rn = Replication. Rr = Rejoinder. I = Interrogatories. D = Deposition

The Problem

The big problem is that (unlike other Star Chamber classes) there are no county names in the lists. This means that the local historians have left them untouched and the county record societies have not published them. Ascribing a county to every case may change this. It is of course not as easy as that; a case may be between two City of London merchants but relate to inheritance (and riotous entry) of a property in Hampshire.

Every page of this, the Star Chamber part of WAALT may change, radically and often. When visiting, refresh your pages every time.

Enjoy

Helen Good

if you found this website useful, why not also visit the WAALT Elizabethan State Papers project