Blood’s Plot shows Restoration insecurity did not divide Ireland simply between Protestant winners and Catholic losers. The article links radical Protestant fears about land and religious policy to the Court of Claims, where declarations of innocence could threaten occupiers despite the shortage of land for compensation. This makes the failed attempt on Dublin Castle appear not merely as a dramatic conspiracy, but as a symptom of competing expectations within Protestant interests. To what extent did the government’s reliance on registration, religious conformity, and legal procedures reduce instability, and to what extent did it intensify anxieties over property and political belonging?