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Bloody Assizes

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Bloody Assizes: see Jeffreys of Wem, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron, 1645?–1689, English judge under Charles II and James II.
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1685: Judge Jeffreys began sentencing rebels to death at what became known as the Bloody Assizes, after the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion - more than a thousand were condemned although only around 300 were actually executed.
WHERE did Judge Jeffreys hold the Bloody Assizes of 1685?
For drama, walk down Dorchester's High West Street, the 17th-century lodging house of the infamous Judge Jeffries, who presided over the Bloody Assizes.
 
 
 
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