Assize

[Footnote 27: Dispossession.] [Footnote 28: Death of the ancestor; that is, in cases of disputed succession to land.] [Footnote 29: Last presentation to a benefice.] [Footnote 30: The word Assize here means an assembly of knights or other substantial persons, held at a certain time and place where they sit with the Justice.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

In = 1166 = he held a Great Council at Clarendon, and with its approval issued a set of decrees known as the Assize of Clarendon.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865

When I joined the paper as a reporter in 1967, I found myself spending half my life at Assize Courts as they were called in those days in places like Hertford, Winchester and Lewes.

News of the World history: all human life was there 2011

This is an enthralling mixture of fact and fiction with murder, treason and graphic accounts of the torture used during the 'Bloody Assize' and shows how Daniel DeFoe was caught up in this time of English Revolution and how the concept of 'Robinson Crusoe' came to be created.

Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008

The same road is trodden by the prisoners committed for trial on their way to and from the Conciergerie and the Assize

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

This explains the miraculous ease with which information can be conveyed, during the sitting of the Courts, to the officials and the presidents of the Assize Courts.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The people down in that part of the country remember it to this day as The Bloody Assize.

A Child's History of England 2007

Parts of the Westcountry will shortly look like they did after the Bloody Assize, so many LibDem noses have been slit to slight their smugly gurning faces.

The Minging Briefer Uncovered 2007

Some civil case was going on which had brought a little crowd together at the foot of the double stairs leading to the Assize

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

This recreation ground, the ante-room to the scaffold or the hulks on one side, on the other still clings to the world through the gendarme, the examining judge, and the Assize

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007