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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 -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
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 ...
Bloody Assizes — Infoplease.com
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 ...

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Bloody Assizes, name given to a series of treason trials conducted by Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys in the western counties of England after the suppression in 1685 of a rebellion led by James Scott, duke of Monmouth, a claimant to the English throne. Jeffreys conducted the trials with ruthless disregard of the legal rights of the defendants. He sentenced more than 300 persons to death and more than 800 to penal transportation to the British colonies in America.