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Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1

Name: Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth

Read by Lynne T, OliverBoliver, Roohi, Bill Mosley and Asia Wilcox · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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The Three Cranes in the Vintry. (18:53)
Sir Giles Mompesson and his Partner. (14:01)
The French Ordinary. (12:22)
A Star-Chamber victim. (9:41)
Jocelyn Mounchensey. (8:49)
Provocation. (9:14)
How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature. (7:35)
Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons. (9:17)
The Letters-Patent. (26:37)
The 'prentices and their leader. (10:24)
John Wolfe. (10:40)
The Arrest and the Rescue. (17:49)
How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill. (21:11)
The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter. (20:31)
Hugh Calveley. (6:56)
Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage. (10:58)
A rash promise. (9:25)
How the promise was cancelled. (11:43)
Theobalds' Palace. (27:02)
King James the First. (19:25)
Consequences of the Puritan's warning. (18:10)
Wife and Mother-in-Law. (18:23)
The Tress of Hair. (19:51)
The Fountain Court. (5:59)
Sir Thomas Lake. (15:49)
The forged Confession. (20:15)
The Puritan's Prison. (11:42)
The Secret. (13:44)
Luke Hatton. (23:35)