After Sedgemoor, royal forces and the Bloody Assizes of Judge Jeffreys conducted systematic pacification of the rebel-supporting areas of Dorset centred on Dorchester. The town was the site of mass trials of captured rebels and the execution of many participants. Dorchester served as the headquarters of the judicial terror that accompanied the military suppression.
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