ABSTRACT

Anne was first interrogated on Sunday, 24 February 1606, at the Holborn Court of Gray's Inn. By then the Star Chamber no longer carried out the preliminary examination of defendants at its antechamber in Westminster. As Anne was being questioned she may well have imagined what was to come: sitting before the King's privy councillors or, if they were in a harsh mood, being made to stand before them at the bar in the ‘outer’ part of the most notorious court in English history, the Camera Stellata, the Star Chamber.