The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25th August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England.
Bloody Assizes. The infamous assizes held by Judge Jeffreys in 1685. Three hundred were executed, more whipped or imprisoned, and a thousand sent to the plantations for taking part ...
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Bloody Assizes:(1685), in English history, the trials conducted in the west of England by the chief justice, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron ...
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