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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



town. Recollections of Monmouth's rising spring up 

 on all sides, terrible episodes of blood and cruelty, too, 

 and the memory of a universally execrated monster. 

 Dorchester was the second place Judge Jeffreys reached 

 on the Blood)' Assize. 



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T/ze White Hart, Dorchester. 



" The court," writes Macaulay, " was hung, by order 

 of the chief justice, with scarlet, and this innovation 

 seemed to the multitude to indicate a bloody purpose. 

 It was also rumoured that when the clergyman who 

 preached the assize sermon enforced the duty of mercy, 

 the ferocious countenance of the judge was distorted by 



