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
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
These assizes do not, of course, appear in Ibelin, who was only concerned with the feudal law of the high court.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
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
