Law for English to colonise Ireland
Main article: Plantations of Ireland § The Cromwellian Plantation
The Act of Settlement 1657 was an Act of the Cromwellian Parliament aimed at the Assuring, Confirming and Settling lands and estates in Ireland. The Act received its third reading on 8 June 1657, and was assented to by the Lord Protector the following day. Its purpose was to ratify previous decrees, judgments, grants and instructions issued by the various officers and councils in the implementation of the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652.
References
- 'June 1657: An Act for the assuring, confirming, and settling of Lands and Estates in Ireland.', Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 1100–110. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=56606. Date accessed: 12 April 2007.
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