William Stewart II Quotes
There was never such a winter for country sports as the last … I have very good hawks and hounds, but we have not had more success in any sport than tory-hunting. The gentlemen of the country have been so hearty in that chase that of 13 in the county … the last was killed two days before I left home.
The term “tories” then had nothing to do with politics. It was the name given to Irish Catholics who having been driven into the mountains by the English Protestants, turned to banditry. They were hunted down and mostly eliminated by 1683.
Sir William Stewart II, ~1626-*, Irish Presbyterian Covenanter, March 1683
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