. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . JEREMY TAYLOR. From the portrait at All Souls College, OxfordIaintcr unknown. SIR WILLIAMS From a copy of a contemporary miniature, which was destroyed in a lire at Wjnnslay ; belonging to Lady Vcrncy, at Ilas Rhoscolwyn, Anglesey I-ace p. 236 GEORGE JEFFREYS 237 He became Baron Jeffreys soon after the accession of James(May 15, 1685). The City of London and legal patronage were alikeunder his control. Finally he presided in the Special Commission,called the Bloody Assize, to try Monmouths supporters in theWestern coun
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . JEREMY TAYLOR. From the portrait at All Souls College, OxfordIaintcr unknown. SIR WILLIAMS From a copy of a contemporary miniature, which was destroyed in a lire at Wjnnslay ; belonging to Lady Vcrncy, at Ilas Rhoscolwyn, Anglesey I-ace p. 236 GEORGE JEFFREYS 237 He became Baron Jeffreys soon after the accession of James(May 15, 1685). The City of London and legal patronage were alikeunder his control. Finally he presided in the Special Commission,called the Bloody Assize, to try Monmouths supporters in theWestern counties, through which his name has become cruelty and the number of its victims have been grossly exaggera-ted, and it is clear that the King urged the judge to greater returned from the West a far wealthier man than he hadbeen, and, though only thirty-seven, was made Lord Chancellor andin 1686 Head of the Ecclesiastical Commission ; in this he presidedover the proceedings against the Fellows of Magdalen in 1687, andadvised the arrest of the Seven Bishops. Learning of Jamess flight,he hid himself on a ship
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