They be both learned in the temporal law, and I doubt not good example shall ensue to see them learn the new law of the Star Chamber, which, God willing, they shall have indifferently administered (p.

120) to them, according to their deserts."[326] [Footnote 325: _Ibid._, ii., 3973.] [Footnote 326: _L.

and P._, ii., App.No.

38; for the Star Chamber see Scofield, _Star Chamber_, 1902, and Leadam, _Select Cases_ (Selden Soc., 1904).] Wolsey's "new law of the Star Chamber," his stern enforcement of the statutes against livery and maintenance, and his spasmodic attempt to redress the evils of enclosures,[327] probably contributed as much as his arrogance and ostentation to the ill-favour in which he stood with the nobility and landed gentry.

From the beginning there were frequent rumours of plots to depose him, and his enemies abroad often talked of the universal hatred which he inspired in England.