It especially targeted sheriffs who did not collect ship money and enforced the decrees against enclosures.
It especially targeted sheriffs who did not collect ship money and enforced the decrees against enclosures. Not bound by common-law protections against self-incrimination or the use of pillory on the gentry, it was expanded to punish rioters under Thomas Wolsey and became known thereafter as incorruptible. Along with its counterpart at the High Commission, it was abolished in 1641 by the Long Parliament. FTP, name this supplementary court used to persecute the Puritans by Charles I, named for the figure painted on the ceiling of its meeting room.
It especially targeted sheriffs who did not collect ship money and enforced the decrees against enclosures.
Court of the Star Chamber