Monday, August 2, 2010

Tory

In the 17th century, dispossessed Irish who turned to robbing and murdering English settlers. Also known as bog-trotters.

“The bogs in Ireland afforded a refuge to Popish outlaws, much resembling those who were afterwards known as Whiteboys. These men were then called Tories.”

Thomas Macaulay, The History of England (1849).

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