The bl00dy assizes..............

[monkeyeyes]

Is there anywhere on-line that can give me a list of the men and women charged and tried by Judge Jeffries ?

Most articles just give the number tried without naming them.....I would be interested to find out their names. I bet some of 'my lot' would have been involved :o)

[Lil O'lady]

This is about the most complete listing of witch trials i have come across:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/w itchtrial/eis.html
Scroll down to 1645, and there's yer man hanging them left right and centre.

[monkeyeyes]

Cheers Lil O'Lady.

But that was Matthew Hopkins..........not Judge Jeffries.

[Lil O'lady]

Doi! A senior moment.
This has some info:
http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/jeffreys.html
And then there's this:
http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/15/1685-j ames-scott-duke-of-monmouth/ - might be a bit onerous to wade through but could help your query

[Lil O'lady]

This should be the definitive:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/d isplaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=833&CATLN=3&H ighlight=&FullDetails=True

which is good news, but the bad news is you'll have to book a slot at the National Archives in kew to get at it.

[monkeyeyes]

Thankyou for your endeavours..............but I'm unable to find the names of those poor unfortunates who are the substance of the 'bl00dy assizes' rather than the names of the great and the good presiding.........

[monkeyeyes]

As you can see, we cross-posted...........

Bah ! That's exactly what I wanted but the PRO is a long way to travel on a whim............

[Lil O'lady]

sadly so. But reflect, this was the case for most archives before 2000 when they started to transcribe the censuses. In another eight years you'll be able to buy online access - given that funding continues for the digitisation of archives (don't get me started on that one....)

[rosetta2]

Sorry to be a bit uninformed here, but can members of the public get to look at very old documents like that?

[Lil O'lady]

Steve - oh you!
Rosetta - the National Archives at kew are free to enter and open to everyone. If you want to examine a particular document, you will have to fill out applications, perhaps await an appointment time, wherre cotton gloves, only be armed with a pencil n all that jazz - but that's to preserve the documents, not to stop you getting at them. Plus, you may need to have expertise in reading ancient handwriting (palaeography) as anything before about 1700 can be in a wonky script.
The same applies to regional record offices and to local studies collections in town libraries, and to material held iin museums.
It's YOUR heritage, they're just minding it.