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 sued out decrees for such lands were to be restored to what they had been deprived of. And one class was specially mentioned as deserving of favour; those namely who had followed the King's ensigns abroad. Some 220 of this class are mentioned by name. Among them w^ere Lord Magennis of Iveagh, Lord Castleconnell, Colonel Charles Mac Carthy Reagh, Captain Hugh O' Conor Don of Ballintubber, and a number of others w^ho had been notoriously participators in the rising of 1641.

Then too any transplanted Irish not in the foregoing class who had received lands were to be confirmed in them. Finally there was a list of persons specially deserving of the King's favour, Nominees as they were called, including four earls, eight viscounts, six barons and twenty other persons of position.

Furthermore there were various provisoes in the Act for the restoration or security of certain favoured individuals, and a second list of "Nominees" eighteen in number to be restored on account of their eminent sufferings as opponents of the Papal Nuncio Rinuccini.

Now in one or other of these various categories by far the greater number of Irish landowners must have been included. Nearly the whole nation