Reports of cases in the court of Star Chamber [manuscript], 1596-1619.

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Reports of cases in the court of Star Chamber [manuscript], 1596-1619.

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One case refers to a group of players "les Simpson" who performed privately before Sir John Yorke and his family an interlude "deriding religion." Some of the cases are reported in John Hawarde's Les reportes del cases in Camera Stellata, edit, by W.P. Baildon, 1894.

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