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Welsh history and its sources
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Rebecca Riots

Agrarian disturbances in west Wales, 183943, featuring attacks on toll-gates led by rioters dressed in women’s clothes (‘Rebecca’). The use of the name may relate to a reference in the Bible to Rebecca and her descendants inheriting the gates of their enemies.

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