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Can a Society Be Designed on Paper? - The 1609 Articles of Plantation | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 1609, English officials produced a document of extraordinary precision known as the Articles of Plantation. It specified exactly how many armed men each landholder must maintain, how high the stone walls of their defensive bawns must rise, and which religious services their tenants must attend. This episode examines the Ulster Plantation, an early seventeenth-century experiment that attempted to design a new society from the ground up using confiscated land, imported British settlers…
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