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Contents
1. Introduction: Star Chamber matters
K. J. Kesselring with Natalie Mears
2. The records of the court of Star Chamber at The National Archives and elsewhere
3. Reading ravishment: gender and ‘will’ power in early Tudor Star Chamber, 1500–50
4. Sir Edward Coke and the Star Chamber: the prosecution of rapes at Snargate, 1598–1602
6. Consent and coercion, force and fraud: marriages in Star Chamber
7. Labourers, legal aid and the limits of popular legalism in Star Chamber
8. Jacobean Star Chamber records and the performance of provincial libel
9. A marine insurance fraud in the Star Chamber
10. Star Chamber and the bullion trade, 1618–20
11. Contemporary knowledge of the Star Chamber and the abolition of the court