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.