JEFFREYS, GEORGE, FIRST

BARON JEFFREYS (1648-89), Eng. Lord Chancellor; d. at Acton, Denbigh- | shire; called to the Bar, 1663, and by his | great skill in cro -exam i nag i on rose in his profe ion, becoming Recorder of London, 1678.. After Mon mouth’s rebellion he was sent on Western Circuit to try the rebels, and at the ‘Bloody Aasioes’ which he opened at Winchester, in 1685, h nd d 820 persons to death. BB; Soon Be coneeure afterwards he D was made | Lord Chancellor of England, but after the flight of James II. he was imprisqned < one in the Tower, where He died, Josiah, King of Judah (@ Kings and 2 | Chronicles). Sasa E.), town, Chi-Li, China. Pop see OES suce. his bro. Ahaziah as king of Israel, c. 854 B.O.; (2) s. of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, ec. of Israel.