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(.—The proceeds of the sales of Houses in Fleet Lane and White Street have been invested in New £3 Per Cents, and East Indian Railway Stock.)

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a rebellion broke out in Ulster, in the North of Ireland, and that province became in a great measure depopulated, and laid waste. Upon the suppression of this rebellion a great portion of the province became vested in the Crown by forfeiture.

In 1613 King James, in consideration of a payment of £60,000, granted a Charter to the City of London for the settlement in Ulster of English and Scotch Protestants. The new settlement having been thus made, the towns built and the lands settled, the whole (with the exception of the indivisible Estates, which are still retained by the Irish Society), was mapped out by the Irish Society, and divided as nearly as could be between the Irish Society and the twelve Livery Companies, who had contributed £40,000 of the amount agreed to be paid to King James. The Companies drew lots for their several shares, which, on receiving, they each named from themselves, their armorial bearings, or other circumstances. Thus the Salter's have their "Manor of Sal"; the Ironmongers the "Manor of Lizard" (Lizards being that Company's Supporters); the Drapers have the "Manor of Drapers," and so on. The following is a list of the twelve Companies:—The Clothworkers, Drapers, Fishmongers, Goldsmiths, Grocers, Haberdashers,