Gillespie’s study of settlement in east Ulster also agreed that settlement appeared to have expanded at a greater rate in the second decade of the century. Perceval-Maxwell in his study of Scottish migration to Ulster during the reign of James I pointed to an acceleration in the rate of Scottish migration between 16. Initially colonisation was slow and many undertakers were prepared to let their lands to the native Irish. This scheme made land available to undertakers and servitors from England and Scotland who were required to settle their estate with tenants form the mainland. The major thrust of immigration was initiated by the Plantation of Ulster which covered six of the nine counties of the province, Antrim, Down and Monaghan being excluded from the official scheme. Table 1 gives details of the numbers of Scottish and English households in each of the nine counties of Ulster during the 1660s and Table 2 gives estimates of Ulster’s population, particularly the British component, at various times throughout the period. The second part of the paper considers the various phases of colonisation between 16 looking at the numbers involved, why they came, and where they settled. The first part of the paper discusses the sources which are available to reconstruct the numbers at various times throughout the century. The aim of this paper is to examine the movement of British settlers into Ulster during the seventeenth century and their spread throughout the province.
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