Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 107 of 120
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# Description This is a page of running prose text from page 107 of what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes Irish agrarian unrest, specifically the "Oak-boys"—a group named for wearing oak branches in their hats—whom the author characterizes as a "baneful pest to Ireland." The passage details their targets (landlords, tenants, and tithe-collectors) and violent activities, then praises volunteer militias (numbering around 50,000) for suppressing these "lawless tribes." The tone is decidedly hostile toward the Oak-boys and sympathetic to established authority.
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A MONTH'’s TOUR. 107 ing their fhirts over their clothes, and the Gak-boys, denominated from wearing a branch of oak in their hats, have long been a banefui peft to Ireland. The objects of their vengeance are chief- ly gentleman who raife their eftates, te- nants who take fuch eflates, and tithe- gatherers. They affemble in numerous. bodies, and-commit the moft horrid out- rages upon their perfons and property. The volunteers, whofe defign is to pre--. ferve the internal peace of the kingdom, as. well as to guard it againft foreign invafion, have great merit in quelling thefe lawlefs tribes, and will, no deubr, in time, entirely extirpate them. The Irith volunteers a- mount in the whole to about 50,000, O 2 comicbooks.com