Notes
but a small matter above [? below] the fifth part of the whole." Lawrence, Interest of Ireland, pp. 47, 48.
Petty, Political Anatomy, ch. 1, says that of 7,500,000 acres of "good land" the Papists had 5,200,000, the Church 300,000, and the planters 2,000,000 in 1641. After the Restoration the Protestants had 5,140,000 acres: the Irish 2,280,000, or nearly one-third; but elsewhere he says (ch. 5): "The British Protestants and Church have three-fourths of all the lands."
In a tract called The State of the Papist and Protestant Properties in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1641, 1653, and 1662, the profitable lands are estimated at 7,400,000 acres, of which the Catholics are said to have possessed 5,000,000 in 1641. Of these 5,000,000, 4,000,000 were confiscated under the Protectorate, and 2,000,000 restored after the Restoration. This is almost the same as Petty's estimate.
Archbishop King says: "These two Acts of Parliament made up the title which two-thirds of the Protestants in Ireland had to their estates." III., 12, *1.
According to Lord Clare (Speech on the Union) 7,800,000 acres which had belonged to Catholics in 1641, were transferred by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation to the Protestants.
33 Reilly, Ireland's Case Briefly Stated, p. 118. Sir Richard Nagle (Coventry Letter), Bishop French (Iniquity Displayed), and Bishop Malony (Letter to Bishop Tyrrel, King, Appendix), all use very similar language.
34 State of the Protestants, II., 4, *1.
35 Political Anatomy, chap. 1.
36 Swift, Reasons for Repealing the Sacramental Test.
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