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''for the Assuring, Confirming and Settling of lands and estates in Ireland''. The Act received its Third Reading on 8 June 1657 and received the assent of the

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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

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*'June 1657: An Act for the assuring, confirming, and settling of Lands and Estates in Ireland.', Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 1100–110. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=56606. Date accessed: 12 April 2007. 1657 in law 1657 in England 1657 in Ireland Acts of the Parliament of England {{statute-stub