Whiteboys

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Whiteboys [1]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Whiteboys from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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