The ringleader of the Landleaguers in County Galway, who refused to pay his rent to Philip Jones, his landlord, and led the gang that flooded the Lough Corrib fields. As it seemed impossible to convict him in his own county, the trial was removed to Dublin, where he was sentenced.
Competition, that beautiful science of the present day, by which every plodding cart-horse is converted into a racer.
The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson
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