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The Plantations
Term | Definition |
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The Plantations | Irish Lands confiscated by the king could be sold or rented to loyal English settlers |
Old English | The people in the Pale that were loyal to the king |
Anglo-Irish | Descendants of the Anglo-Normans who invaded Ireland in the 12th century |
Gaelic Irish | the Gaelic chieftains who followed Irish laws, known as Brehon laws |
Brehon Laws | Gaelic Irish Laws going as far back as the Iron Age |
Surrender and Regrant | the Old English and the Gaelic Irish rulers were to surrender themselves and their lands to Henry VIII, and he would grant their land back to them with an English title |
Succession | when land was passed on from father to son in the English System |
Planters | New settlers during a plantation |
Adventurers | Men who claimed to be descendants of the early Normans granted land in Munster by Henry II |
Presidents | Men who imposed English law, the English language and the protestant religion |
Undertakers | men who undertook (agreed) to do as they were told with the land given to them |
The flight of the earls | when O'Neill and other Ulster chiefs fled to Europe in 1607 |
Servitors | English or Scottish soldiers who had fought for the Crown |
Loyal Irish | Native Irish who stayed loyal to the English during the Nine Years War |
Penal Laws | laws that suppressed the status of Catholics in Ireland |
Laois-Offaly plantations | Ordered by Queen Mary I, Counties were renamed to kings and queens county, counties were assigned a sheriff to enforce English law, land was divided into estates and given to english people |
Munster Plantation | Ordered by Queen Elizabeth I, encouraged adventurers to claim the land and sent presidents to enforce the law |
Ulster Plantation | Ordered by King James I, land in Tyrone, Donegal, Derry, Armagh, Cavan and Fermanagh were divided into estates that were occupied by planters, Derry was reserved for members of London craft guilds, increase of protestants in Ulster led to religious divide |