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Whiteboys

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A secret Irish organisation that at the beginning of George III.'s reign asserted their grievances by perpetrating agrarian outrages; so called from the white smocks the members wore in their nightly raids.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whiteboys'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​w/whiteboys.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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