starchamber

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{n} a kind of court in England
It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture
It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641
An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury
It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges