The Enterprise of Ulster was a programme launched in the 1570s where Queen Elizabeth I tried to get English entrepreneurs settled in areas of Ireland troubled by the activities of Ulster.
[1] Under this programme Nicholas Malby, Thomas Chatterton and Sir Thomas Smith were granted large areas of Eastern Ulster and a larger area in Clandeboye, a grant of all of County Antrim except for the Route and the Glens, was granted to the Earl of Essex in 1571.
[3] This was an attempt by the crown to counter resistance in Ulster.
[5] For some time after the enterprise was established, the crown did not actively interfere in the affairs of the other Provinces of Ireland.
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