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?1539 in MS Transcripts from Rome Archives (P.R.O.: PRO 31/9/65) (1894) f. 321^v The said devorse shuld be the grete fall and utter distruction of the said Red cap which was the late cardinall [sc. Wolsey]..Till by a nother Red cap the lande shuld be reconciled or ells brought to utter distruccion.

1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 236 A silly frumpe of a White-liverd Red-cap.

1694 C. Cotton tr. L. Pontis Mem. ii. v. 236 Writing in a passion, I inveigh'd bitterly against him [sc. a cardinal], and laid him out in his true colours, mentioning him in scurrilous terms, as Hat, and Redcap, and the like.

1550 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 6 Captaine Redde Cappe, one of the rebelles of the last yere.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 78 That colour on their cheekes you behold superficializd, is but sir Iohn whites, or sir Iohn Red-caps liuery.

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. L4^v Runne Red-cap, ware hornes there.

1705 Introd. Hist. Kingdoms & States Asia i. 351 Amurath was slain by the Red-Caps, because he would not receive their Religion.

1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 75/2 He commanded the Yorkshire troop of redcaps in the first Scotch warr.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley xxxvii. 205 Now push along old red-cap.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island v. xxv. 200 There were the two watchmen, sure enough: red-cap on his back, as stiff as a handspike.

1902 T. A. Janvier Christmas Kalends Provence viii. 64 ‘Good, very good, citizen!’ said old Red-cap.

2016 @Slarnos 4 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2021) So if Mussolini had Blackshirts does that make Trump's followers Redcaps?

1595 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1875) II. 130 Thomas Creede. Entred for his Copie under the handes of bothe the wardens a booke entituled Mother Redd Cappe her laste will and Testament conteyning sundrye conceipted and pleasant tales furnished with moche varyetie to move Delighte.

1597 J. Bee Storie Witch named Alse Gooderige 31 Yonder comes mother Redde Cap, looke how they beate her braines out, see what it is to be a witch: see how the toades gnaw the flesh from her bones.

1597 P. Henslowe Diary 22 Dec. (1845) 106 Layd owt, the 22 of desembr 1597, for a boocke called mother Redcape, to antony monday and M^r Drayton.

1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 172 Quoth mother Red-cap, you haue hit it right.

a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. i. 41 in Poems (1638) I bethink my selfe That I have seene in mother Red-caps Hall In painted cloath the story of the Prodigall.

a1687 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 99 Her Grace Finds me among a Crew of mad-caps, Æneas, at one Mother Red-Cap's.

1777 Fashion 9 As florid as e'er fat old mother red-cap, Upon a poor sign post, drinking her heel-tap.

1795 J. Wolcot Wks. (1812) III. 118 Since Impudence, assuming Freedom's form Near Mother Redcap brews the dangerous storm.

a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1845) 20 It has been stated that Mother Red Cap was the ‘Mother Damnable’ of Kentish Town in early days.

1853 A. M. Howitt Art-student in Munich I. xvii. 174 The tall, shadowy figure of a student, arrayed in a long grey cloak, with a pointed hood standing up on his head, in a wizard or ‘Mother Red-cap’ style.

2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 15 June 30 The exploits of the notorious Mother Redcap take centre stage... The play tells the tale of the so-called ‘foster mother of wild spirits’ whose cottage..was a haven for smugglers, wreckers and fugitives from press-gangs in 18th-century Wirral.

?1790 Dodsley's Chron. Kings Eng. (new ed.) 81 They threatened to invade the land with a great army of demons whom they called redcaps.

1802 J. Leyden Ld. Soulis in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 348 But Redcap sly, unseen was by, And the ropes would neither twist nor twine.

1802 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 335 (note) Redcap is a popular appellation of that class of spirits which haunt old castles.

1886 H. Cunliffe Gloss. Rochdale-with-Rossendale Words & Phrases Redcap, that which induces a person to run away from his work. The people say such a one ‘has seen Redcap’.

1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. at Red adj. Red-cap, a cruel, mischievous spirit with very long teeth, regarded as inhabiting old towers, castles, and peel-houses.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 273/1 Redcap, a bogle, a hobgoblin.

1793 Free Communing 14 The challenge was given in these words: ‘Do you acknowledge the French Republic?’ If we answered in the negative, we drew upon the resentment of the red caps, alias mad caps, of that country.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. v. 376 Your fell Red Caps are heard in the Corridor rummaging and slamming.

1861 C. Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. VII. xvii. 309 The Tricoteuses again sit upon its [sc. the guillotine's] steps; and the passing red-caps speak out the name of their faithful servant.

1924 D. Moore (title) In the reign of the red cap.

1989 A. Goldhammer tr. F. Furet & M. Ozouf Crit. Dict. French Revol. i. 129 A host of pikes and red caps milled about in the neighboring streets.

1903 Pittsburg (Pa.) Post 10 Apr. 16/1 One of the local roads for some time has been employing station porters—‘red caps’ as the trainmen call them—to assist passengers with their bundles.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxi. 227 A man shouted ‘taxi’ at them; a redcap tried to take Fonzo's bag.

1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick iii. 59 Kelly didn't explain that there were no redcaps at Victoria Station.

1977 Times 19 Apr. 15/7 In France and Switzerland the larger stations have ‘red cap’ porters who shift baggage on a prescribed tariff.

2003 V. O. Carter Such Sweet Thunder 403 Redcaps rushed up to carry the bags of the passengers who streamed into the station.

1919 Athenæum 1 Aug. 695/1 In your July 18 issue a correspondent mentions ‘red-hat’ as an army policeman. I have always found ‘red-cap’ to be the more familiar term.

1949 G. Cotterell Randle in Springtime 7 ‘Mind yourself, there are some redcaps in that jeep.’ ‘I seen 'em,’ the driver grinned, slowing down to below forty miles an hour, as another jeep, containing three Military Policemen, approached and passed them.

1976 J. O'Connor Eleventh Commandment iv. 53 She used to take me to night~clubs tucked away which no officers or redcaps knew about.

2008 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 7 The father of a Welsh Redcap murdered by an Iraqi mob is to sue the Government for botching the inquiry.

?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii X. Table 94 Red-Cap, [or] Spoon-egg... Each of these Valves resembles a Tea-Spoon; and both shut, a small Egg.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. 55 ii. 534/2 Many birds..seem to have particular names in these parts [sc. Yorkshire]. Woodpeckers..[are called] pickatrees, [and] gold-finches, red-caps.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 6 The red-cap, hanging over head, In cage of wire.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 23 The redcap whistled, and the nightingale Sang loud.

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) 436 Redcap, the goldfinch.

1898 Yorks. Weekly Post 31 Dec. 24/2 Yorkshire terms I have heard..: Goldfinch, Redcap.

1846 J. W. Loudon Brit. Wild Flowers 25 The farmers call it Red-weed, Red Cap, Corn Rose.