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 magistrates had told Mr. Ripshaw they should recommend her at the Midsummer assizes, when she was mentioned in high terms to the Lord Chief Baron.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
It must be remembered that he only gives the substantive law about common rights in the course of a discussion of the pleadings in actions 'quo jure' and assizes of pasture.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
At the assizes at Bury, at the time we speak of, the sheriff’s pomp and state was something approaching to regal splendour.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
