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 James I. and shall receive new patents at half fees" &hellip; furthermore an Act should be passed finally confirming their tenures.

It is asserted by Leland (Book IV. Chap. 8) that the inhabitants actually had paid £3,000 to have their patents enrolled, and that it was due to the neglect of the clerks of the Court of Chancery that this had not been done.

From time to time we come across hints at a possible plantation of Connaught. And from about 1625 on we hear of a project of confiscation and plantation in the Irish districts in north Tipperary and Limerick. It was reserved for Strafford, as I have said, to bring both projects into the sphere of reality with his usual thoroughness.

The Parliament of 1634 had passed an Act confirming all compositions made or to be made by Strafford's new Commission for remedying defective titles. It had asked for an Act under