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town. Recollections of Monmouth's rising spring up 

 on all sides, terrible episodes of blood and cruelt}% too, 

 and the memory of a imivcrsally execrated monster. 

 Dorchester was the second place Judge Jeffreys reached 

 on the Bloody Assize. 



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

 of the chief justice, with scarlet, and this innov^ation 

 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 



