Elcho never returned to Britain, and for his part in the rising he was subject to the act of attainder passed in 1746 and his titles and lands were forfeited.
22.
From the year of the passage of the Act of Attainder, De Lancey s income, now greatly curtailed, was supplemented by a grant of ?00 a year from the British Treasury.
23.
The New York Assembly, on October 22, 1779, in an Act of Attainder, declared Mathews to be one of 59 state felons who was to be executed if found in the state.
24.
Therefore, parliament inserted a clause into the Act of Attainder, providing that assent granted by Commissioners " is and ever was and ever shall be, as good " as assent granted by the sovereign personally.
25.
Cuyler's property confiscated and condemned to death under the Act of Attainder in 1779, destitute, he sailed to England to seek relief, he was granted an annuity, he returned to New York.
26.
The lands subsequently were granted to the Earls of Kildare, members of the Welsh-Norman act of attainder was passed against Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, whose lands, castles and manors were forfeited to the crown.
27.
He was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Earl, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1546 to 1562, who was killed in the latter year, and in 1563 an Act of Attainder was passed through Parliament with all his titles forfeited.
28.
He was included in the Act of Attainder, and, after staying in Highland fastnesses for four months, went to Edinburgh disguised in a black wig, as the liveried groom of a lady who rode pillion behind him on a horse.
29.
The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, had then advocated a policy of summary execution in some circumstances, with the use of an Act of Attainder to circumvent legal obstacles, being dissuaded from this only by talks with US and Soviet leaders later in the war.
30.
After the downfall of the Jacobite cause, Lord FitzWilliam was the subject of an Act of Attainder, but the attainder was later reversed, whether because of the family's record of loyalty to the Crown, or because of their wealth and influence, is unclear.
