The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 259 pages of information about The Star-Chamber, Volume 1.

The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 259 pages of information about The Star-Chamber, Volume 1.

CHAPTER

     I. The Three Cranes in the Vintry
    II.  Sir Giles Mompesson and his partner
   III.  The French ordinary
    IV.  A Star-Chamber victim
     V. Jocelyn Mounchensey
    VI.  Provocation
   VII.  How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell’s signature
  VIII.  Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere,
        and Sir Giles’s other Myrmidons
    IX.  The Letters-Patent
     X. The ’prentices and their leader
    XI.  John Wolfe
   XII.  The Arrest and the Rescue
  XIII.  How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman
        on Stamford Hill
   XIV.  The May-Queen and the Puritan’s Daughter
    XV.  Hugh Calveley
   XVI.  Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage
  XVII.  A rash promise
 XVIII.  How the promise was cancelled
   XIX.  Theobalds’ Palace
    XX.  King James the First
   XXI.  Consequences of the Puritan’s warning
  XXII.  Wife and Mother-in-Law
 XXIII.  The Tress of Hair
  XXIV.  The Fountain Court
   XXV.  Sir Thomas Lake
  XXVI.  The forged Confession
 XXVII.  The Puritan’s Prison
XXVIII.  The Secret
  XXIX.  Luke Hatton

  “I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it.” 
  Merry wives of Windsor.

CHAPTER I.

The Three Cranes in the Vintry.

Adjoining the Vintry Wharf, and at the corner of a narrow lane communicating with Thames Street, there stood, in the early part of the Seventeenth Century, a tavern called the Three Cranes.  This old and renowned place of entertainment had then been in existence more than two hundred years, though under other designations.  In the reign of Richard II., when it was first established, it was styled the Painted Tavern, from the circumstance of its outer walls being fancifully coloured and adorned with Bacchanalian devices.  But these decorations went out of fashion in time, and the tavern, somewhat changing its external features, though preserving all its internal comforts and accommodation, assumed the name of the Three Crowns, under which title it continued until the accession of Elizabeth, when it became (by a slight modification) the Three Cranes; and so remained in the days of her successor, and, indeed, long afterwards.

Not that the last-adopted denomination had any reference, as might be supposed, to the three huge wooden instruments on the wharf, employed with ropes and pulleys to unload the lighters and other vessels that brought up butts and hogsheads of wine from the larger craft below Bridge, and constantly thronged the banks; though, no doubt, they indirectly suggested it.  The Three Cranes depicted on the large signboard, suspended in front of the tavern, were long-necked, long-beaked birds, each with a golden fish in its bill.

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