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Revision as of 16:14, 4 March 2015

This project gives the user lists of the documents in STAC 5 taken from the 18th Century manuscript list and roughly sorted into what may well turn out to be cases. For anyone with better information, or who wants to join in, mail@helengood.com will find me, or you can apply for wikki priviledges to elspethrosbrook@gmail.com and start changing the pages. I would advise you to put your contribution on the 'Names' page and at the end rather than in the middle of a page. I am maintaining a master copy of the Catalogue, Names, Dates and Places pages and I might otherwise inadvertently overwrite you, which would be a shame.

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 about 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. The class is included in the TNA on-line catalogue, but this is neither complete nor accurate. Don’t take my word for it, have a look for yourself.

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 has been that (unlike the 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. A large number of Welsh cases have been identified, (A Catalogue of Star Chamber Proceedings Relating to Wales compiled by Ifan ab Owen Edwards, Cardiff U P 1929) and those county names will be included in time.

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

You can receive regular tweets from Star Chamber by following @StarChamberEliz

Helen Good

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