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
He was suddenly arrested, and committed to take his trial at the ensuing assizes on several charges of forgery.
This was quite in private conversation, and only came to light after the business of the assizes was over.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
Cumberland is in the northern circuit, and assizes are held at Carlisle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
