On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:52:59 -0000 "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: Hello Roy, > Surely you mean Dorchester, don't you, Jean? That was where the Bloody > Assizes were held. Wikipedia reckons the trials started in Winchester then moved to Salisbury, Dorchester and on to Taunton. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Assizes> -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" People stare like they've seen a ghost Titanic (My Over) Reaction - 999

On 30 Dec 2010 at 17:10, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:52:59 -0000 > "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > > Hello Roy, > > > Surely you mean Dorchester, don't you, Jean? That was where the > > Bloody Assizes were held. > > Wikipedia reckons the trials started in Winchester then moved to > Salisbury, Dorchester and on to Taunton. > > See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Assizes> Well, even a self-appointed cleverclogs like me can get it wrong sometimes! I concede you are all correct, but Judge Jeffreys to me has always been most closely associated with Dorchester. I don't see anything that says he, personally, actually sat at Winchester. As Lord Chief Justice, he certainly presided over the whole affair, but there were five other judges beneath him. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE