the Graces
Irish history
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policies of Charles I
- In Ireland: Charles I (1625–49) and the Commonwealth (1649–60)
…religious concessions, known as “the Graces,” which were designed to secure the status of the Old English by permitting Roman Catholics to engage in various public activities. But this policy was abandoned by Thomas Wentworth, Charles’s lord deputy of Ireland from 1633 to 1640 and later the earl of…
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