drapier's

[Sidenote: 1724 -- The drapier's arguments] Little as he liked the Irish people in the beginning, yet he had a temper and a spirit which made him intolerant of injustice and oppression.

A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

[Sidenote: 1724 -- The drapier's victory] Any one who reads the letters with impartial attention will see that from first to last the anger that burns in them, the sarcasm that withers and scorches, the passionate eloquence which glows in even their most carefully measured sentences, are directed against Wood and his halfpence only because the patent, the bribe by which it was purchased, and the manner in which it was forced on Ireland, represented the injustice of the whole system of Irish administration, and the wrongs of many generations.

A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871