ABSTRACT
The Long Parliament proposed the extensive sale of rebel lands to raise money to finance a war against the rebels, but the process was slow, and the government troops were on the defensive. In April 1642 a Scottish army landed at Carrickfergus under Munroe to suppress the rising, the Scottish planter elements rallied to him, and the collapse of monarchical government in England by August 1642 followed by civil war, meant that Ireland was left very much to itself. In August 1645 the earl of Glamorgan arrived in Ireland to treat with the Confederates for a cessation of arms and the despatch of 10,000 fighting men into England, but the talks came to nothing. The 1648 uprisings in England, and the shift in allegiance of part of the Scottish leadership, led to changes in Ireland too.
