assizes
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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
Down to the Toulouse assizes last week he hauled the family nurse and governess, Sister Madeleine, a Dominican nun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The county is in the home circuit, and assizes are held at Hertford.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
He was suddenly arrested, and committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes on several charges of forgery.
At this moment of condemnation you refer to your intention of obtaining my discharge at these assizes.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold
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