[ CONTINUING FROM LAST MESSAGE ] An act of the Irish parliament passed in 1662 after the restoration of the monarchy sought to reverse land confiscations or allow compensatory grants in cases where reversal of confiscation was impracticable. The 1662 act proved very difficult to implement. A further act of the Irish parliament passed in 1665 tried to alleviate the situation. There was a court of claims. Commissioners were appointed to settle disputes. A lot of confiscated land had passed to innocent purchasers. There was limited land available for compensatory grants. -- -- // -- -- -- The Insichuyne reference at the notebook work`s page 13 seen in scan 7 seems to mean an Irish army officer named Hugh Insichuyne who campaigned in Ireland against Cromwell. Insichuyne seems to have been active at the time of the Irish rebellion of 1641-42. The notebook work says at page 13 seen in scan 7 that Richard Butler was a Collector of some government rent for Insichuyne. The government reference seems to have to mean the Irish Catholic revolutionary regime known as the Confederation of Kilkenny which was proclaimed in 1642 and controlled a large part of Ireland until 1649. It appears that Colonel Grace who has been mentioned in my last message operated in conjunction with the Duke of Ormond. Page 13 seen in scan 7 says Colonel Grace was ordered by Ormond to take charge of a castle at Borrisoleigh. That seems to be the commander denoted by the Ormond`s Regt reference at the final page. I think I see there Officers in Ormond`s Regt .... Royal Ensigns beyond Seas, there being an indiscernible word between Regt and Royal. -- -- // -- -- -- Did beyond Seas mean in exile after their side was defeated? There was an exodus of Irish soldiers to France and Spain after the English army`s victory in 1652 over the various forces it had been fighting in Ireland since 1641. The English revolution of 1688 led to warfare in Ireland in which the army of King William the Third prevailed in 1690 over the army of James Stuart the former King James the Second. Irish soldiers departed to a life in exile in France, where their presence continued a tradition. It became customary in popular parlance to refer to the Irish exiles in France as the wild geese. The notebook work`s page 32 seen in scan 17 has Dr Thomas Fogarty`s son and heir in France in the 1700s. // REGARDS, Andrew Fogarty / Monday, 4--11--13
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 11:32:01 +0000
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