The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1, credited to William Harrison Ainsworth, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth. Read in English by Lynne T; OliverBoliver; Roohi; Bill Mosley; Asia Wilcox A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so. As the mix of fact and fiction unfolds in this tale, the court is beginning to lose favor during the reign of James I as the church once again increased its power, while Parliament's power decreased as the monarch tried to rule without them. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
• Author credits: William Harrison Ainsworth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:10:01

Catalogue topics

• confession
• letter
• prison
• court
• puritan

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - The Three Cranes in the Vintry. — 18:53
2. 02 - Sir Giles Mompesson and his Partner. — 14:01
3. 03 - The French Ordinary. — 12:22
4. 04 - A Star-Chamber victim. — 9:41
5. 05 - Jocelyn Mounchensey. — 8:49
6. 06 - Provocation. — 9:14
7. 07 - How Lord Roos obtained Sir Francis Mitchell's signature. — 7:35
8. 08 - Of Lupo Vulp, Captain Bludder, Clement Lanyere, and Sir Giles's other Myrmidons. — 9:17
9. 09 - The Letters-Patent. — 26:37
10. 10 - The 'prentices and their leader. — 10:24
11. 11 - John Wolfe. — 10:40
12. 12 - The Arrest and the Rescue. — 17:49
13. 13 - How Jocelyn Mounchensey encountered a masked horseman on Stamford Hill. — 21:11
14. 14 - The May-Queen and the Puritan's Daughter. — 20:31
15. 15 - Hugh Calveley. — 6:56
16. 16 - Of the sign given by the Puritan to the Assemblage. — 10:58
17. 17 - A rash promise. — 9:25
18. 18 - How the promise was cancelled. — 11:43
19. 19 - Theobalds' Palace. — 27:02
20. 20 - King James the First. — 19:25
21. 21 - Consequences of the Puritan's warning. — 18:10
22. 22 - Wife and Mother-in-Law. — 18:23
23. 23 - The Tress of Hair. — 19:51
24. 24 - The Fountain Court. — 5:59

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