Proclamation was accordingly made throughout England, inviting 'younger brothers of good families' to undertake the plantation of Desmond--each planter to obtain a certain scope of land, on condition of settling thereupon so many families--'none of the native Irish to be admitted' Under these conditions, Sir Christopher Hatton took up 10,000 acres in Waterford; Sir Walter Raleigh 12,000 acres, partly in Waterford and partly in Cork; Sir William Harbart, or Herbert, 13,000 acres in Kerry; Sir Edward Denny 6,000 in the same county; Sir Warren St.Leger, and Sir Thomas Norris, 6,000 acres each in Cork; Sir William Courtney 10,000 acres in Limerick; Sir Edward Fitton 11,500 acres in Tipperary and Waterford, and Edmund Spenser 3,000 acres in Cork, on the beautiful Blackwater.

The other notable Undertakers were the Hides, Butchers, Wirths, Berkleys, Trenchards, Thorntons, Bourchers, Billingsleys, &c.

Some of these grants, especially Raleigh's, fell in the next reign to Richard Boyle, the so-called '_great_ Earl of Cork '-- probably the most pious hypocrite to be found in the long roll of the 'Munster Undertakers.'.