The Bloody assizes
By: edited by J.G. Muddiman ...
Contributors: Muddiman, Joseph George, 1862?- ed.; Bent, James.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733, supposed author.
Series: Notable British trials
Publisher: W. Hodge & Company, Limited
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Edinburgh; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Jeffreys, George Jeffreys, Baron, 1644 or 5-1689.; Bloody Assizes, 1685.
Notes: "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.