The juries under the assizes began deciding guilt as well as providing accusations. The rioters were tried in the assizes at Ely during the week commencing June 1816. The present name reflects the storing of records from the assizes and shire hall. He was to appear for trial at the next assizes. After graduating he was appointed a justice of assizes. Souper was arrested and tried by jury at Winchester Assizes. He was tried on 9 November at Herefordshire Assizes. McCaffery was tried and convicted at the Liverpool Assizes. The trial took place at Warwick Assizes, Birmingham. Lord Denman CJ heard the trial at the Surrey Spring Assizes. He had been Ketch's assistant during the period of the Bloody Assizes. A series of trials known as the Bloody Assizes took place to punish the rebels. It was then added to the Oxford circuit of the English Assizes. The National Archives holds most of the surviving historical records of the assizes. The second law reformed the procedure before the juries of the Assizes.