The recent digitisation of the 1641 depositions has opened up that large and controversial collection of manuscripts to renewed study. The significance of a substantial section of that archive generated in 1653–4 by the work of the Cromwellian delinquency commissions has hitherto been poorly understood. This article sheds new light on the workings of the commissions and on the ways in which the ‘delinquency depositions’ that they collected helped to shape the implementation of the Cromwellian and Restoration land settlements in Ireland. It also compares the Irish delinquency proceedings to the approach adopted by the Long Parliament in its dealings with royalists in England in the 1640s. In analysing the actual content of the depositions, the article focuses particular attention on County Wexford. The surviving delinquency depositions enable in-depth exploration of many facets of the 1641 rebellion and its aftermath in that region.

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剖析爱尔兰叛乱：克伦威尔犯罪委员会、歧视书籍和 1641 年的证词

最近对 1641 份证词的数字化为重新研究打开了庞大且有争议的手稿收藏。迄今为止，人们对克伦威尔犯罪委员会的工作在 1653-4 年产生的大部分档案的重要性知之甚少。本文对委员会的工作以及他们收集的“犯罪证词”如何帮助塑造了爱尔兰克伦威尔和恢复土地定居点的实施提供了新的见解。它还将爱尔兰的犯罪诉讼程序与长期议会在 1640 年代与英国保皇党人打交道时采用的方法进行了比较。在分析证词的实际内容时，本文特别关注韦克斯福德郡。