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Bloody Assizes
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Bloody Assizes

Courts held by judges of the High Court in the west of England under the Lord Chief Justice, Judge Jeffreys, after Monmouth' s rebellion in 1685. Over 300 rebels were executed and many more flogged or imprisoned.



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