BLOODY ASSIZES, the name given in history to the com mission conducted by Chief Justice Jeffreys after the Monmouth Rebellion in the west of England in 1685. Over 30o persons were condemned to death; hundreds more were transported. Although modern research has acquitted Jeffreys, in certain cases, of any technical irregularity, the trials generally were conducted with a ferocity which has, with reason, made his name notorious. (See JEFFREYS, G. J. ; LISLE, ALICE; MONMOUTH, DUKE OF.)