When Were Assizes Held?

Bloody Assizes, (1685), in English history, the trials conducted in the west of England by the chief justice, George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, and four other judges after the abortive rebellion (June 1685) of the Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II, against his Roman Catholic uncle King ...

How often were Assizes held?

The twice-yearly assizes brought justice to provincial towns throughout Britain, and saved litigants and jurors the trouble and expense of journeying to London. Until the later 19th century the system remained substantially unchanged.

What are British assizes?

assize, in law, a session, or sitting, of a court of justice. It originally signified the method of trial by jury. ... In England all writs of assize originally had to either be tried at Westminster in London or await trial in the locality of origin at the circuit of the justices every seven years.