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

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

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

The representations made by the magistrates at the last assizes will be sufficient testimony up to that time; and since then, you cannot say that you deserve any defence.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard