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who followed the commission suggestion and chose either to ignore or to trivialise the custom, had had their actions upheld by the courts. Against this background, and with additional distress of the enveloping Famine that bore down on those still able to sustain themselves in rising Poor Law rates, otherwise loyal Protestant farmers interpreted the omission of the tenant right from the act as an existential threat. Increasing evictions (of which there were

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