The Bloody assizes
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Bloody assizes
Classmark: Law E-98/MUD
Additional creator(s): Muddiman, Joseph George (1862-) (Other); Tutchin, John (1661?-1707) (Other); Dunton, John (1659-1733) (Other)
Related people: Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689; Muddiman, Joseph George; Tutchin, John; Dunton, John
Publisher: W. Hodge
Publication city: Edinburgh; London
Date(s): [1929]
Language: English
Size and medium: 250p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/176647
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002210949705181
Description
"The present reprint omits precisely those portions of the book to which no historian ever has paid... the slightest attention."--Pref.
Reprint of the 5th edition, with reproduction of the original t.-p.: The western martyrology; or, Bloody assizes. Containing the lives, trials, and dying-speeches of all those eminent Protestants that suffer'd in the west of England, and elsewhere, from the year 1678, to this time; together with the life and death of George L. Jeffreys. The 5th ed.... London, Printed for J. Marshall, 1705.
The life of Jeffreys was published separately, 1689, with title: The Bloody assizes: or, A compleat history of the life of George, Lord Jefferies, and dedication signed: James Bent. "James Bent was in all probability a pseudonym adopted by [John] Dunton." cf. p. 8.
Appendix: A. Monmouth rebels tried on the western circuit, 1685 - B. Lord Jeffrey's warrant to Edward Hobbes, sheriff of Somerset - C. Persons excepted by name in James II.'s general pardon of 10th March, 1686.
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