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.
lvi
Court of the Star Chamber
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Violence | Margaret Hoby | 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. |
Timeline
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.
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 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 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 speech.