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The Bloody Assizes at Taunton

Taunton Castle, Somerset

Judge Jeffreys sentenced Monmouth's rebels in the castle's great hall.

After the defeat at Sedgemoor, Judge Jeffreys arrived in Taunton in September 1685 to try the men who had followed Monmouth. In the great hall of Taunton Castle, he sentenced many to be hanged, drawn and quartered, and hundreds of others to be shipped to the West Indies.

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When
September 1685
Where
51.0150, -3.1040
Group
Gibbets & executions

Visiting

The great hall is part of the Museum of Somerset, free to visit.

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