Note 17 — PAPERS BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. (continued 3)

The Spencer name is found in Ireland for many generations, and appears under both spellings. Bearers of the name were among the “Forfeiting Proprietors” and other Irish who, during the Cromwellian regime, were ordered to migrate “To Hell or to Connaught.”

Many descendants of English settlers in Ireland became thoroughly Irish, some dropped their English surnames and assumed Irish ones, wedded Irish wives, were rated as “Papists,” and dressed “after ye Irishe fashion.”