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The Adventurers' Act is an Act of the Parliament of England, with the long title "An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the rebels in His Majesty's Kingdom of Ireland".〔(Charles I, 1640: An Act for the speedy and effectuall reducing of the Rebells in his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland to theire due obedience to his Majesty & the Crowne of England ), Statutes of the Realm: volume 5: 1628-80 (1819), pp. 168-72. Website of British History Online. Date accessed: 18 April 2007.〕 The Irish Rebellion of 1641 had broken out five months earlier, and the Act was designed to pay the army needed to subdue the rebellion by using borrowed money. Repayment would come from confiscating the rebels' lands and selling them. ==The main Act== It was passed by the Long Parliament on 19 March 1642 as a way of raising funds to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1641.〔Manganiello, Stephen C.(2004). ''The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639-1660'' Scarecrow Press, Great Britain ISBN 0-8108-5100-8. (p.10 )〕 The Act invited members of the public to invest £200 for which they would receive 1,000 acres (4 km²) of lands that would be confiscated from rebels in Ireland. 2,500,000 acres (10,000 km²) of Irish land were set aside by the English Government for this purpose. The entire country of Ireland is roughly . The enactment was done at the request of King Charles in the House of Lords, joined for this by the Commons, and was unanimously accepted without any debate. The title of the Act was read out to Parliament followed by the statement: "le roy le veult"〔http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35806 'House of Lords Journal Volume 4: 19 March 1642', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 4: 1629-42 (1767-1830), pp. 653-658. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35806 Date accessed: 12 September 2014.〕 The "Adventurers" were so called because they were risking their money at a time when the Crown had just had to pay for the Bishops' Wars in 1639-40. "Reducing" the rebels meant leading them back (Latin: ''reducere'') to the "King's Peace". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventurers' Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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