After the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685 the Bloody Assizes were held in Dorchester with the ill famed Judge Jeffery's presiding.
The West Riding of Yorkshire in the late eighteenth century was ill-famed for its robust and independent plebeian culture.
What on earth was he doing, walking unaccompanied to the most ill-famed area of the town?
Life has not improved for the millions of rural poor still caught up in the struggle between the guerrilla, the ill-famed army and the murderous paramilitary groups.
The Vatican signed its ill-famed concordat with Hitler in 1933 to prevent him from grabbing church property and meddling in church affairs.
Oregon has the ill-famed distinction of ranking among the states with the highest jobless levels in the country.