Day: September 13, 2004

More Catalan thieves

I thought you’d like to know that the first bandoleros in the OED are Catalan and to be found in James Howell’s Epistolae Ho-Elianae (1645): These parts of the Pyreneys that border upon the Mediterranean, are never without Theeves by Land (call’d Bandoleros). Howell was a miserable git and, like most of us Anglo-Welsh, had…