From there it moved in November to the Court of the Star Chamber
, where it was settled in Hoby's favour on 17 February 1602.
Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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1606: The Court of the Star Chamber heard a case...
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1606
The Court of the Star Chamber
heard a case in which Anne Gunter
was accused of witchcraft, while other parties believed the accusation was wrongful.
Wootton, David. “Brutish Babies”. London Review of Books, 11 Nov. 1999, pp. 34-35.
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3 November 1640: The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened...
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3 November 1640
The Long Parliament was reluctantly convened in London by Charles I
: it included a majority of Puritans, and set about reforms such as abolishing the Court of the Star Chamber
, which, among other...
June 1643: The Long Parliament took a decisive step...
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June 1643
The Long Parliament took a decisive step towards re-establishing government control over printing: a Licensing Order was enacted to take over the censorship function formerly exercised by the Court of the Star Chamber
and relinquished...
23 November 1644: John Milton published Areopagitica, which...
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23 November 1644
John Milton
published Areopagitica, which has become one of his most famous prose tracts because of its subject-matter: a condemnation of censorship, or (stretching its original position slightly) even a defence of freedom of...