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 business of the assizes began on Thursday, the 20th, and did not terminate until that day week, the 27th.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
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
Under the head of laws come the assizes of the Kingdom, edited by Beugnot in the Recueil des historiens des croisades; and the assizes of Antioch, printed at Venice in 1876.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
