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 population. Few Irish were to receive estates there, so that it was hoped that the territory might become an almost exclusively British settlement. In the original scheme certain Irishmen were to have got 8,000 acres in this county on the petition of the Lord Deputy; but only 6,000 acres were actually allotted to them.

Of course this attempt at segregation failed in the long run. The new landowners could not cultivate their demesne lands without Irish labour; Irish tenants offered higher rents than could be obtained from British; these last could not always be obtained. At first extensions were obtained of the time limit before which the Irish occupiers were to remove. Then the new owners, by a policy of passive resistance, succeeded ultimately, in spite of numerous efforts on the part of the government, in evading this, one of the fundamental conditions of their grants. Finally in 1626 permission was given to take Irish tenants on a quarter of the