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Execution broadside.- Levellers.- Particulars of the First Execution of the White Boys in Ireland, printed broadside, one or two letters obscured, small tears and holes, scattered spotting, small loss to upper corner, laid on conservation tissue, c.360 x 155 mm., Nottingham, C. S. Ordoyno, [c.1822].***Rare. Seemingly unrecorded.The 'Whiteboys' were a secret Irish agrarian organisation of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, also known as the 'Levellers' or 'Queen Sive Oultagh's children'. The 'Whiteboys' mentioned here were arrested, tried and executed for burning the barracks and much of the town of Churchtown in County Cork.
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Execution broadside.- Levellers.- Particulars of the First Execution of the White Boys in Ireland,
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