Plantation: From 'The Plantation of Ulster,' by the Rev. George Hill (Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson and Orr, 1877). To that great work the reader is referred fo "Ulster before the Plantation,"The Project of the Plantation,"Doubts and Delays,"The Commissioners of Plantation,"Results and Arrangements,"The Londoners' Plantation,"Pynnar's Survey," etc.

2 Undertakers: Hill also gives the nationality of each of those Undertakers, and the names of the townlands or parts of townlands which constituted his grant or estate in Ireland, under the Plantation.

3 Worst: "This attempt at colonizing a portion of Munster," says Hill. "was the latest that had been undertaken prior to the time of the plantation in Ulster (temp. James I.). The object of the movement, in Munster was to place English settlers on the extensive lands left comparatively desolated during the war with the great Earl of Desmond. By the Articles of (A.D.) 1596, between Queen Elizabeth and the Undertakers of escheated lands in Munster, the latter received quantities varying from 6,000 to 24,000 acres, each. One part of the county of Limerick, with portions of Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford, were thus set out to Christopher Hatton, Edward Fitton, and Rowland Stanley, Knights, from Cheshire and Lancashire; the remaining part of the county of Cork, and parts of the county of Waterford adjoining, were let to Walter Raleigh, John Stowell, and John Clifton, Knights from Devonshire and Somersetshire. Sir William Courtney, Edward Hutton, and Henry Outred, esquires, were undertakers for the remaining lands in the county of Limerick. The county of Kerry was also included in that plantation, and several other undertakers, in addition to those above named, obtained grants of the Munster lands. The lands conveyed in these grants were generally too extensive to be properly managed; and, therefore, the whole plantation was swept away in years after its commencement. The Irish, when they assailed it, did not adopt any slow or halting process in rooting it out; during the one yeare above named they burned everything, even the deserted houses--permitting the new settlers, however, to decamp with their lives."

4 Rooted out: Writing of these ruined English colonies in Ireland, Davys, in p. 150 of his 'Historical Tracts', closes up an account of their disasters in the following words:-- "Thus, in that space of time which was between the 10th yeare of Edward II., by the concurrence of the mischiefs before recited, all the old English colonies in Munster, Connaught, and Ulster, and more than a third part of Leinster became degenerate, and fell away from the Crown of England; so as only the four shires of the English Pale remained under the obedience of the law; and yet the borders of the marches therof were grown unruly, and out of order too, being subject to black rents and tributes of the Irish; which was a greater defection than when ten or twelve tribes departed and fell away from the Kings of Judah."

5 "Fit to be trusted": "Human justice," says the Irish Fireside, "may pause and wonder why it was that the Irish race was not made the instrument of divine vengeance on the wicked house of Stuart, to save the culprit, from his justly merited doom. Or why it was that on James II who, though by no means innocent, yet, with all his faults, was certainly the least guilty of his family, why on him fell the penalties of his predecessors . . . What more just than that the Scotchmen and Englishmen, so cruelly planted on the lands of the Ulster Irish by James Stuart the First, should by their descendants, expel James Stuart the Second, not only out of Ireland, but from Scotland, and from the very throne of England itself?"

"Collection of such Orders and Conditions as are to be observed by the Undertakers upon the Distribution and Plantation of the Escheated Lands in Ulster:"