(thing) by EverybodysCyclopedia Sat Jul 27 2002 at 15:33:53

Black Assize, in English history, an assize held at Oxford in 1557, when the High Sheriff and 300 other persons died of infectious disease caught from the prisoners.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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