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CONFISCATION IN IRISH HISTORY

As to the rest of the island the policy followed by James had been in the main an equitable one. To most of the Anglo-Irish lords and to many of the chief men of the old Irish he had given tenures good in law; and he had taken steps to secure in their lands the innumerable landholders in Connaught and in Clare.