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| ====== Richard Prior ====== | ====== Richard Prior ====== |
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| **Richard Prior**, Captain Thomas Prior’s eldest son with estates at Rathdowney, Ely and, after his sister Isabella's death, Derbyshire. \\ | **Richard Prior**, Captain Thomas Prior’s eldest son with estates at Rathdowney, Ely and, after his sister Isabella's death, Derbyshire.((Rosa Praed Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, MSOM64-01, Box10/7/2a)) \\ |
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| In 1685, the Catholic [[wp>James_II_of_England|James II]] succeeded his more pragmatic brother Charles II and in 1689 passed an [[wp>Patriot_Parliament|Act of Attainder]]. This Act not only reversed the Irish land grants to Protestants such as the Priors, but condemned over 2,000 of them to defend themselves from the charge of high treason. Richard Prior and other Protestants choose to flee, forfeiting their land. Richard fled to Cambridge, to property there that he had inherited from his father as well as some 40 acres in Ely.\\ | In 1685, the Catholic [[wp>James_II_of_England|James II]] succeeded his more pragmatic brother Charles II and in 1689 passed an [[wp>Patriot_Parliament|Act of Attainder]]. This Act not only reversed the Irish land grants to Protestants such as the Priors, but condemned over 2,000 of them to defend themselves from the charge of high treason. Richard Prior and other Protestants choose to flee, forfeiting their land. Richard fled to Cambridge, to property there that he had inherited from his father as well as some 40 acres in Ely.\\ |