assizes
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Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp.
From Time Magazine Archive
The business of the assizes began on Thursday, the 20th, and did not terminate until that day week, the 27th.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
Examinations would be conducted, assizes would be held, and for all I knew, Mr. Herbert might be condemned and hanged while we were yet marching and countermarching upon the borders.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
At the next county assizes for Somerset, held at Chard, in the year 1613, he was tried, found guilty, and condemned to death.
From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William
