A Treatise on the Court of Star-Chamber


Book Description

A note on the front of the work states that it was composed by William Hudson of Gray's Inn and given to Jonathan Finch by his son William Christopher Hudson on December 19, 1635. Lord Mansfield was said to have cited this work in the case of King v. Wilkes.






















Copy of A Treatise of the Court of Star Chamber, in Three Books Divided Into Considerations


Book Description

The table of contents at the beginning lists the Considerations. The text differs in some respects from the copy in BL Harl. MS 736 and BL Harl. MS 1226, which attributes the work to Hudson. In several hands. Also includes at end, a short treatise on the ordering of the Court of Star Chamber.