A History of the British Empire

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3- '-'*- textit{m r, . r . ," I CHAP. II. textit{Containing a particular account of the various Institutions and Usages under the Tudor* and their Predecessors, which either were prejudicial to freedom, or are supposed to have been so; together with an examination of Mr. Hume's Statements in his third Appendix, upon which he concludes that the English government under Elizabeth, " textit{bore some resemblance to that of Turkey." The various institutions and usages under the Tudors and their predecessors, which were, at a subsequent period, abolished or discontinued, have been so little understood, or so generally misconceived, that, without presenting a. particular account of them, and examining the statements of Mr. Hume, which are remarkably plausible, and have made a deep impression on the public mind, we should in vain attempt to convey a correct idea of the views of parties during the stormy period we have selected as the subject of our work; and the discussion of such topics here, will save us from the necessity of interrupting the narrative with explanations. The Court of Star Chamber, as holding a conspicuous rank amongst arbitrary institutions, demands our earliest attention. Anterior to the time of the Tudors, there does Court of, ..i . ..., Star-Cham. not occur, either in any publication or record, bet. o much as the mention of any Court called the Court of Star-Chamber: And the advocates for Its antiquity are obliged to admit, that the few instances referred to by them, in proof of its. an- tiquity, passed under the Council, as it was then called, or, as we should now denominate it, the Privy Council. Indeed Lambard, the first great writer on this subject, states explicitly, that the Star-Chamber was no ordinary court, but the king's council, which, out of the inherent...

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