Act of Settlement 1662 - Footnotes

Footnotes

  • ^ Note 1: Entrepreneurs, Merchant Adventurers - this refers to the Adventurers Act passed by the English Parliament in 1642, which decreed that that loans given to the Parliamentarians during the Civil Wars could be recouped by the creditors receiving land confiscated from those Irish Catholics who rebelled or remained neutral in the 1640s.

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