The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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The execution of Lady Lake's criminal and vindictive project would not have been long deferred after the defeat she had sustained from Lord Roos but for her husband's determined opposition...William Harrison Ainsworth was an English historical novelist renowned for his incredibly popular historical romances, such as this text, 'The Star Chamber'. Ainsworth initially studied law but left it for literature, publishing his first novel anonymously in 1826. His first success came with the novel 'Rookwood' published in 1834, featuring the highwayman Dick Turpin, which led many reviewers to hail him ...
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- THE STAR-CHAMBER; AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE, 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
- CHAPTER I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry.
- CHAPTER II. Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner.
- CHAPTER III. The French ordinary.
- CHAPTER IV. A Star-Chamber victim.
- CHAPTER V. Jocelyn Mounchensey.
- CHAPTER VI. Provocation.
- CHAPTER VII. How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature.
- CHAPTER VIII. Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons.
- CHAPTER IX. The Letters-Patent.
- CHAPTER X. The 'prentices and their leader.
- CHAPTER XI. John Wolfe.
- CHAPTER XII. The Arrest and the Rescue.
- CHAPTER XIII. How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill.
- CHAPTER XIV. The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter.
- CHAPTER XV. Hugh Calveley.
- CHAPTER XVI. Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage.
- CHAPTER XVII. A rash promise.
- CHAPTER XVIII. How the promise was cancelled.
- CHAPTER XIX. Theobalds' Palace.
- CHAPTER XX. King James the First.
- CHAPTER XXI. Consequences of the Puritan's warning.
- CHAPTER XXII. Wife and Mother-in-Law.
- CHAPTER XXIII. The Tress of Hair.
- CHAPTER XXIV. The Fountain Court.
- CHAPTER XXV. Sir Thomas Lake.
- CHAPTER XXVI. The forged Confession.
- CHAPTER XXVII. The Puritan's Prison.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. The Secret.
- CHAPTER XXIX. Luke Hatton.
- END OF VOL. I.
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