Under the Plantation of Ulster, the mostly Scottish settlers, nominally called undertakers and planters agreed to remain loyal to the English Crown and to retain their religion which was for the most part, Protestant. Essentially, they undertook to retain their loyalty to the Crown, hence the term undertakers.
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