...toll-gates now commenced was characterised, however, by a more systematic and organised plan of hostility. The name which the insurgents adopted deserves, in...application of a passage in the book of Genesis.* This captain of the gate-breakers, in the guise of a woman, always made her marches and attacks by...

...toll-gates now commenced was characterised, however, by a more systematic and organised plan of hostility. The name which the insurgents adopted deserves, in...supposed head or chief of the anti-turnpike conspiracy wascalled " Rebecca," a name which was derived from a strange and preposterous application of a passage...

...toll-gates now commenced was characterised, however, by a more systematic and organised plan of hostility. The name which the insurgents adopted deserves, in...place, to be noticed. The supposed head or chief of the anti -turnpike conspiracy was called " Rebecca," a name which was derived from a strange and preposterous...

..." the supposed head or chief of the gate-breakers being called Rebecca : a name adopted on account of a passage in the book of Genesis, " And they blessed...Rebekah, and said unto her, Let thy seed possess the gates of those which hate them." — xxiv. 60. In order to quell these riots, government sent into...

...Wales. The supposed head or chief of the gate-breakers was called "Rebecca," a name derived from this passage in the book of Genesis : " And they blessed...Rebekah, and said unto her, Let thy seed possess the gates of those which hate them." (Gen. xxiv. ver. 60.) " Rebecca," who was in the guise of a woman,...

...clothes, assembled and pulled down the turnpike gates. The name Rebecca is taken from a passage in Genesis : " And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, let thy seed possess the gates of those which hate them." The riots were suppressed and a commission appointed to inquire into...