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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

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 in Monmouth's rebellion.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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