Main articles: Plantations of Ireland#The Cromwellian Plantation
The 'Act of Settlement 1657' was an
Act of the
Cromwellian Parliament ''for the Assuring, Confirming and Settling of lands and estates in Ireland''. The Act received its Third Reading on
June 8,
1657 and received the assent of the
Lord Protector the following day. Its purpose was to ratify previous decrees, judgments, grants and instructions made or given by the various officers and councils in applying the
Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652.
References
★ 'June 1657: An Act for the assuring, confirming, and setling of Lands and Estates in Ireland.', Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 1100-110. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=56606. Date accessed:
12 April 2007.