 However the parliament made it clear that it would not vote him taxation if he did not accede to their minimum demands.James reluctantly approved the restoration of pre-1650s Catholic landowners to their estates and an Act of Attainder, which confiscated the estates of 2,000 mostly Protestant "rebels".With equal reluctance he assented to the parliament's assertion that Ireland was a "distinct kingdom" and that laws passed by English Parliament did not apply there.