The Flight of the Earls of 1607 had left Ulster leaderless ad the people defenseless, it also gave the English administration a free hand to implement a policy of plantation across the province. It was planned on a much more systematic and comprehensive scale than previous plantations in the country. Each county was to be divided into segregated areas, placing the native Irish in defined places and creating a new network of Protestant communities.
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A History of the Ulster Plantation in Ireland
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