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Roque Guinart

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A famous robber, whose true name was Pédro Rocha Guinarda, leader of los Nicerros, which, with the los Cadelles, levied heavy contributions on all the mountain districts of Cataloʹnia in the seventeenth century. He was a Spanish Rob Roy, and was executed in 1616. (Pellicer.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Roper
Roque
Roque Guinart
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