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Creation Date
1630
Description
Crompton, Richard. Star-Chamber Cases, Shewing What Causes Properly Belong to the Cognizance of that Court. 1st ed. London: Printed for John Grove, 1630.
This small book published in 1630 derives from Richard Crompton's larger work, L'Authoritie et Iurisdiction des Courts de la Maiestie de la Roygne which first appeared in 1594. Approaching the Star-Chamber from a strictly legal point of view, Crompton (c. 1529–c. 1599) details the statutes which affected the court and the types of cases that typically came before it. His sources included the entire gamut of legal publications, including statutes, law reports, and chronicles, sprinkled with his own observations.
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Item from the personal collection of Sid Lapidus, used with permission.