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Roberts, cash-keeper of Master George Heriot the king’s goldsmith.—Sir W. Scott: Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).

Roberts (John), a smuggler.—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet (time, George III.).

Robespierre’s Weavers, the fish-fags and their rabble female followers of the very lowest class, partisans of Robespierre in the first French Revolution.