The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood
“Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery and president of Munster, to Charles II, 23 May 16631 Wholesale state confiscation of Catholic and Royalist lands in Ireland followed Oliver Cromwell’s brutal suppression of the Irish Confederation rebellion. Superficially, this seemed to be the action of an impecunious administration in London confiscating traitors’ property simply to meet the vociferous demands of New Model Army veterans in Ireland for their eighteen months’ arrears in pay.2 English governments had... taken this harsh step before and were prepared to repeat it in the future.
However, the objective was far more malevolent than a mere juggling of hard-pressed state budgets.
The Rump Parliament’s Act of Settlement of Ireland in August 1652 authorised the summary execution of the leaders of the defeated uprising. It also established a legal framework to seize sufficient land to reward those ‘adventurers’ (or rather speculators) who had funded English efforts to put down the insurrection to the tune of £10 million from 1642, as well as recompensing, in kind, the 12,000 English troops still serving in Ireland.3 Many Royalist and almost all the Catholic landowners, particularly those living in Ulster, Leinster and Munster, lost all or part of their estates.MoreLess
However, the objective was far more malevolent than a mere juggling of hard-pressed state budgets.
The Rump Parliament’s Act of Settlement of Ireland in August 1652 authorised the summary execution of the leaders of the defeated uprising. It also established a legal framework to seize sufficient land to reward those ‘adventurers’ (or rather speculators) who had funded English efforts to put down the insurrection to the tune of £10 million from 1642, as well as recompensing, in kind, the 12,000 English troops still serving in Ireland.3 Many Royalist and almost all the Catholic landowners, particularly those living in Ulster, Leinster and Munster, lost all or part of their estates.MoreLess
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