Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Court of Star Chamber
The court of star chamber was empowered to make judgments on the basis of equity, which means simply a sort of general sense of fairness. It could condemn people for things that weren't technically illegal according to the letter of the law, but that the court judged should be illegal or seem wrong. And and many people saw this as dangerous, and also as usurping the proper authority of parliament to enact or reject laws. The court could kind of make its own law sometimes. So this was a very powerful and very frightening court, and it became one of the the main weapons that made the tudors monarchs with a sort of power not seen before in england.
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