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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER XVI
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Why should I hold my peace when I have a mission from on high?
I shall speak to the King as Nathan spoke to David." "He speaks like a prophet," cried the miller; "I begin to have faith in him.

No doubt the iniquities of London are fearful." "If he preach against extortioners and usurers only, I am with him," Dick Taverner said.

"If he rid London of Sir Giles Mompesson and his peers he will do good service--still better, if he will put down corruption and injustice as exhibited in the Court of Star-Chamber--eh, Master Jocelyn Mounchensey ?" At the mention of this name the Puritan appeared greatly surprised, and looked round inquiringly, till his eye alighted upon the young man.
After regarding him for a moment fixedly, he demanded--"Art thou Jocelyn Mounchensey ?" The young man, equally surprised, replied in the affirmative.
"The son of Sir Ferdinando Mounchensey, of Massingham, in Norfolk ?" inquired the Puritan.
"The same," Jocelyn answered.
"Thy father was my nearest and dearest friend, young man," Hugh Calveley said; "and thy father's son shall be welcome to my dwelling.

Enter, I pray of you.

Yet pause for a moment.


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