Roy Stockdill wrote > Surely you mean Dorchester, don't you, Jean? That was where the Bloody > Assizes > were held. The Bloody Assizes started on the 25th August, 1685 at Winchester. Even Wikipedia confirms this! Maggie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: "B & S rootsweb" <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Jefferies > > On 30 Dec 2010 at 15:49, Jean Wood wrote: > >> >> Well, perhaps you are also related to the famous Judge --- I grew up >> in Winchester and the Bloody Assizes of 1685 were notorious and we >> were taught about them from very early days. There is even a shop >> which boasts that a platform was built out from their first floor >> level to create the scaffold. > > > Surely you mean Dorchester, don't you, Jean? That was where the Bloody > Assizes > were held. > > -- > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.449 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3347 - Release Date: 12/29/10 19:34:00

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:16:25 -0000 "Maggie Perkins" <maggieperkins@puddingstone.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: Hello Maggie, > The Bloody Assizes started on the 25th August, 1685 at Winchester. > Even Wikipedia confirms this! Worryingly (having just re-read the page), Wikipedia says the trials started on the 25th Aug (para. 1) and later in the article, the 26th Aug (para. 3). <http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ASH/Bloodyassize.htm> confirms that the trials began in Winchester. No date is given, except to say Autumn. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Never much liked playing there anyway Banned From The Roxy - Crass

Brad, you wrote > Worryingly (having just re-read the page), Wikipedia says the trials > started on the 25th Aug (para. 1) and later in the article, the 26th Aug > (para. 3). Thanks for pointing that out. Jean was right when she admitted > Well, I have started something! We are all getting quite gruesome - I've been reading a book (a translation from Danish) about Marie Tussaud which includes her dealings with the severed heads of her friends and acquaintances at the time of the French Revolution. Another grisly theme. Maggie.

Allegedly Judge Jefferies used to lodge in a public house here in Worle, The Valiant Soldier, now a home, when he held courts in Banwell. Jenny Kingsbury. -----Original Message----- From: Maggie Perkins Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:38 PM To: Bristol_and_ Somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Jefferies Brad, you wrote > Worryingly (having just re-read the page), Wikipedia says the trials > started on the 25th Aug (para. 1) and later in the article, the 26th Aug > (para. 3). Thanks for pointing that out. Jean was right when she admitted > Well, I have started something! We are all getting quite gruesome - I've been reading a book (a translation from Danish) about Marie Tussaud which includes her dealings with the severed heads of her friends and acquaintances at the time of the French Revolution. Another grisly theme. Maggie. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Listers, Surely Judge Jefferies participated in a Court Circuit? It is well known that he tried at Ilminster and was responsible for the hangings in Kenn. 'Kenn is notable as the site of the last public hangings in the UK to be carried out at the scene of the crime. Three arsonists (William Wall, John Rowley and Richard Clarke) who had set fire to a local farmer's hay were hanged, another three being transported to Tasmania.[3]' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenn,_Somerset Chard Tourist Info Cached site: http://www.touruk.co.uk/somerset/som_chard.htm Chard, small town in a farming area on the border with Devon. After the failed Monmouth rebellion in 1685 Judge Jefferies held his Bloody Assize here in the former manor house. The building is still here, near the Elizabethan Guildhall, and you can visit the courtroom. The church and the Choughs Inn are worth a visit, probably in that order. Kind regards, Jill http://www.kingston-bagpuize.com - an online history of Kingston Bagpuize & area.