Book Reviews by Frank W Harris
Studia Hibernica, pages 186-187, 1976
Law and History Review , Vol. 5, No. 1, 1987
The American Journal of Legal History, Oct 1990
American Historical Review, Oct 1995
Papers by Frank W Harris
American Historical Review, 1999
The Irish Sword: The Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, 1980
Studia Hibernica, 1980
While the planning and organisation of the plantation of Ulster in the reign of James I took plac... more While the planning and organisation of the plantation of Ulster in the reign of James I took place both in London and Dublin, its implementation resulted directly from the work done in the field by the three commissions of 1608, 1609 and 1610. It had been initially hoped that the plantation would be inaugurated following the first of these commissions, but the failure in 1608 to obtain a cartographical survey of the escheated and forfeited territories proved to be a glaring defect which would have to be remedied if the problems of the earlier plantation in Munster were to be avoided. To this deficiency were added the complaints and criticisms of the undertakers regarding the difficulty of the conditions for settlement, the waning interest of the servitors caused by their dissatisfaction with the proposed method of distributing proportions by lot rather than by choice, the growingfear caused by the circulation of rumours that the earl of Tyrone was preparing to return to Ulster at the head of an invasion force which resulted in 'no small discouragement of the plantation,' as well as the need to distinguish and separate the church lands which were 'intermixed with the escheated lands.' After taking stock of such considerations it was decided by the government that the only feasible course was to delay the plantation for a year -that is, to postpone it to 1610 -and use the intervening summer of 1609 to correct the shortcomings of the first commission. In fact, the commission of 1609 was to have the three-fold duty of determining precisely what lands in Ulster had come to the crown by attainder, as well as surveying, plotting out and dividing such lands into proportions, and lastly hearing and settling the merits of all claimed titles. 'For the furtherance and speeding of the said plantation' great latitude was to be given the commissioners in their powers to handle all matters arising on the spot. Within certain restrictions as outlined by the instructions for the project the commission was given carte blanche in an attempt
Valparaiso University Law Review, 1987
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