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1640/06/07

Popular uproar with which commenced the war against Philip IV. Vulgarly known as the abalot dels segadors, the harvesters’ disturbance. »
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.]  »

1640/06/03

To Sir J. Brown, Knight. ONE would think, that the utter falling off of Catalonia and Portugal in so short a compass of Time should much lessen the Spaniard, the People of both these Kingdoms being from Subjects become Enemies against him, and in actual Hostility: Without doubt it hath done so, yet not so much [...] »
James Howell (1754). Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign. London: Ware, Knapton, Longman et al.  »

1640/05/12

The people rise up and free the deputies imprisoned by the Viceroy, Count of Santa Coloma. This is the first outbreak of violence in the war between Catalonia and King Philip IV. »
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.]  »


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