An Unknown Conspiracy against King Henry VII

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 133-158
Author(s):  
I. S. Leadam
Keyword(s):  
Exact Nature ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
National Biography ◽  
In Virtue Of

The following paper is to be found in the Record Office, being No. 24 of the Star Chamber Proceedings of the time of Henry VII. It is not, however, a Star Chamber Proceeding in the accepted sense of the term. It forms no part of a litigation, neither is it a proceeding of the Statutory Court of the Star Chamber in virtue of its statutory or other jurisdiction. It probably found its way among the Star Chamber Proceedings proper by accident. It is evidently a fragment of depositions in a political case heard by the Privy Council. It may be that the Council, as was not unusual sat in the Star Chamber for convenience; or that a member of the Council, leaving the Council Chamber for the Star Chamber, took it with him and mixed it with his judicial papers. Possibly Robert Rydon, who acted both as clerk of the Council and of the Star Chamber, and who took these depositions, was the agent of the confusion. The depositions relate the movements of certain conspirators in a mysterious plot against Henry VII. the exact nature of which can only be guessed. In the year 1503, to which these events relate, the centre of political intrigue against the new dynasty was Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk. His life is set out in the ‘Dictionary of National Biography,’ and it will only be necessary to recall here so much as will serve to elucidate the story. Edmund de la Pole was the second son of John de la Pole, second Duke of Suffolk, by Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and sister of Edward IV.

‘In Corona Populi’

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-67
Author(s):  
K.J. Kesselring
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
Lay Participation ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 2 examines the coroner’s inquest, asking how homicides become known and categorized, and how this changed over the period. Coroners held an office that dated from the late twelfth century, but one freshly charged from around 1487, when statutes sought to press the coroners to action through fees and fines. The coroners’ determinations of the nature of a sudden death, in early years, focused on the financial incidents owed to the king. Over time, financial interests in a killing became more diffuse and the king’s interests became more expansively understood. The active intervention of the Privy Council and the Court of Star Chamber helped police the efforts of inquests. The mix of lay participation and central oversight gave the early modern inquest a special flavour. Coroners’ inquests came to be seen as serving not just the king’s interest and the king’s peace, but something conceived as public justice.

Aspects of theBeit-ElandEilon MorehCases

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-495
Author(s):  
Julius Stone
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Moment

Judges whose daily tasks are to interpret the law of their own State frequently find difficulties in expressing the exact nature and hierarchical value of the rules of international law, which from time to time they are required in some sense to apply.Perhaps the classical example of this in countries applying the English common law is that of prize courts and the law which they should apply. Under international law belligerent States, by whom maritime captures (prizes) may be made, have a duty to create some forum before which issues can be tried as to the lawfulness of such captures and its consequences. As Lord Parker observed inThe Zamoraas to the title in the property seized, “from the moment of seizure the rights of all parties are governed by international law”. In the final ruling in that case, the Privy Council held that the neutral property at issue had been unlawfully requisitioned, even though such requisition was authorised by a British Executive Order-in-Council, because that Order-in-Council itself was inconsistent with the rules of international law governing requisition of neutral property.

Early Virginia in the Privy Council and Star Chamber

1935 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 451 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Renwick Riddell
Keyword(s):  
Privy Council ◽  
Star Chamber

The Significance of the Baronial Reform Movement, 1258–1267

1943 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 35-72
Author(s):  
R. F. Treharne
Keyword(s):  
Reform Movement ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
English History ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Feudal Society ◽  
A Minor ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Power And Authority

The most significant feature of the baronial movement of 1258 is that it was the first deliberate and conscious political revolution in English history. The Angevin system of government, essentially a centralised despotism grafted on to the stock of a primitive national monarchy and growing within the framework of a feudal society, was transformed, at the Parliament of Oxford, into a limited monarchy based on written constitution. The entire power and authority of the crown, in every sphere of government, was put into commission and vested in a privy council of fifteen magnates, selected, not by the king, but by a sub-committee appointed by a committee of the great council; and for nearly two years England was successfully governed and reformed by this nominated privy council, which acted throughout in virtue of the mandate expressed in the Provisions of Oxford, regarding itself as representative of and responsible to the great council. In the king's own words, the Council of Fifteen treated him as a minor under their wardship, settling affairs of state without his presence, and without having asked him to attend, issuing orders without awaiting his authorisation, ignoring his views, and merely replying ‘Nous volons qe issy soit’, without any further explanation, when he remonstrated; they passed over his nominees for offices high and low, appointing others against his will; they used his great seal without consulting him, and denied him all use of it; in fact, they so far diminished his royal power and dignity that little or nothing was done at his command, and his orders were neglected as though it were the council that reigned.

scholarly journals Council, Star Chamber, and Privy Council under the Tudors

1922 ◽  
Vol XXXVII (CXLVIII) ◽  
pp. 516-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. POLLARD
Keyword(s):  
Privy Council ◽  
Star Chamber

Council, Star Chamber, and Privy Council under the Tudors

1922 ◽  
Vol XXXVII (CXLVII) ◽  
pp. 337-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. POLLARD
Keyword(s):  
Privy Council ◽  
Star Chamber

The Cromwellian Decade: Authority and Consent

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 177-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. L. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
English History ◽  
Subsequent Research ◽  
Historical Climate ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Henry Vii ◽  
The Right

The 1530s always remained classic Elton territory, in spite of later and fruitful excursions into the Cecilian world and beyond. How distinctive were the thirties? Are we still justified in talking about a ‘Revolution’? In a historical climate which puts the accent on continuities, such talk has become unfashionable. Productive reform was characteristic of the Wolsey ministry, of the reigns of Henry VII and of Edward IV, and perhaps had its origin with Margaret of Anjou's regime. Equally historians are now very aware of the gap between aspiration and reality, the sheer difficulty of effecting real change, and especially in such areas as religious practice. They are also aware of how un-revolutionary in many respects were the succeeding years; of how many of the initiatives of the thirties were not followed up in the later year of Henry VIII or even in the otherwise revolutionary reign of Edward VI; above all of the Elizabethan regime with its avoidance whenever possible of confrontation and its attempts to recreate many of the ancient continuities. The thirties did represent a watershed in very many areas, did introduce changes which would be difficult if not necessarily impossible toreverse. But to try to make the thirties the fulcrum around which English history revolves is to invite refutation and the probability that the degree of real change will be underestimated as a result. Where, for instance, Tudor Revolution in Government deals with the particular it remains a remarkable work: inevitably sharpened by subsequent research, but none the less pointing in the right direction on changes in die financial departments, and above all in the evolution of a formal Privy Council.

scholarly journals The Star Chamber under the early Tudors

1916 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Edwin Terrence Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Special Importance ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Agent ◽  
The Common ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
The One ◽  
Present Subject

Text taken from Chapter 1: The Court of Star Chamber is no exception to the rule that most of the interesting and important developments of the English Constitution have evolved from the one great institution, the King's Council or the Privy Council. The theory of the origin of the Star Chamber is simple and much less baffling than the facts of its beginning, which are hard to discover and more difficult still to interpret. The King's Council was powerful and dominating largely because it combined executive, legislative and judicial powers . In connection with the present subject, its judicial functions are of special importance. From the beginning of English constitutional development, the king, or more particularly, the king in council, was recognized as the ultimate source of justice. It was within the province of the king's authority to over rule the decisions of the courts of first instance if, in his judgment, the decree or sentence of the court was unjust. Likewise, he bad the power to redress grievances which could not for any reason be settled in the common law courts. The object of this thesis is to show by an examination of the records how the court originated and to point out its position, scope of activity and importance under the Tudors from 1485 to 1547. The Court of Star Chamber has been much misunderstood in the past. It has been generally condemned largely, it must be admitted, upon sentimental grounds and not on ths basis of scientific investigation. Most of the odium attaching to the Star Chamber is the result of Stuart misuse of its powers and not of the Tudor practices. An attempt will be made to show that the court, at least so far as the early Tudors are concerned, served a useful purpose and does not deserve the condemnation due to the confusion with Stuart tyranny and the employment of the court as a political agent of royal despotism.

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