Plantations Flashcards
Servitors
Had served the crown in Ireland
Could has Irish tenants
Same fortifications as the undertakers
English and Scottish undertakers
Undertook to bring only English and Scottish tenants to build fortifications according to land granted
1000 acres build a braw
1500 acres or more build a bawn and castle
Tenants to live near bawn and keep arms in readiness
Loyal Irish
Received a tenth of the plantation land
Same terms as servitors
Must be English farming methods
Guilds
Mainly from London and had been involved in Virginia plantations
Irish society established to look after co. Londonderry for them as they were usually absentees
Others
Church of Ireland
Trinity college Dublin
Six free schools
Planted towns
Derry Enniskillen Drapers town Limivady Money more Coleraine
Puritans
Were extremely strict types of of protestants Lived around 16 and 17 centuries Believes church was corrupt and sinful Wanted to purify religion Used bible as the word of law on earth
Things your not allowed to do
No sport No makeup No ale houses No theatres No cards/gambling No goose
English feared Spanish would
Use ireland as a base to attack
English thought Irish were
Barbarians and needed to be civilised
English realised they could
Make money by going to ulster and take land