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MG-A(G.762.013
1 Jul 1762:11 (895)
Ireland. A succinct account of a set of miscreants in the
Counties of Waterford, Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary, called
Bougheleen Bawins (i.e. White Boys) the Children of Sive
Oultaugh (i.e. Sarah Ulster) being an extract of a letter
from a gentleman residing in Youghall, to his son in London.
Their first rise was in October last, and they have ever
since been increasing; they then, and all along, pretending
their assembling was to do justice to the poor, by restoring
the ancient commons, and redressing other grievances; for
which purpose they always assembled in the night, with their
shirts over their cloaths, which caused them to be called
White Boys; their number in the county of Waterford, is
computed to 6 to 700. They have done infinite damage in the
county, levelling ditches, and stone walls, rooting up
orchards, &c.
On the 11th ult. I saw several ditches they had levelled,
part of an orchard destroyed, and two graves they had dug,
on the road between Clonmell and Coppoquin; the graves were
to hold those that did not comply with their orders. Some
time before this, they came by night into the town (a large
village) of Coppoquin, where is a horse barrack, drew up in
the green near the barrack, fired several shot, and marched
by the centry with their piper playing, The Lad with the
White Cockade. . . [1 column, various activities]
April the 1st, between 7 and 8 in the evening the alarm
was beat; after that, to arms, a false alarm being given,
that the white Boys were within half a mile of the North
gate; . . . [7 lines]
The 2d, they marched them through it in their uniforms,
with drums beating, fifes playing, &c. . .
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