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 Undertakers' lands, provided that they were given leases for life, or for twenty-one years, and that provision was made to force such Irish tenants to abandon the mode of life and the religion of their forefathers.

And so we find to-day the curious result that the two counties of Ulster in which the Teutonic and Protestant element definitely predominates over the Irish and Catholic are Down and Antrim, areas in which, up to the time of Cromwell, there was scarcely any confiscation, and no attempt at colonisation on the part of the government.

The old Irish element persisted in the six plantation counties, intermingled with but distinct from the colonists. Religious distinctions kept the three races Irish, Scots, English apart.