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

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

He made the journeys to London, he attended the sessions and assizes at Westerbury; but it very often happened that, when a client called at the office, neither would be there.

From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

The county is in the Oxford circuit, and assizes are held at Hereford.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various