Page105“Mountmorris”should beMountnorris.
172“by previous grants”by a previous grant.
173“Patent of 1621”Inquisition of 1621.

CONTENTS.


CHAPTER.PAGE.
Authorities[xvi.]
Leading Dates[xvii.]
I.The Men of Devon[1]
II.The Rape of the Lough[9]
III.Chichester, Deputy[17]
IV.An Evil Partnership[27]
V.A Viceroy’s Last Will and Testament[32]
VI.The Ulster Lords[36]
VII.Chieftain and Vassal[42]
VIII.Uprooting the Nobles[46]
IX.War’s Aftermath[50]
X.The Harrying of Sir Randall[54]
XI.The Deputy’s Nephew[59]
XII.Cheating King James[65]
XIII.Dividing the Spoil[71]
XIV.The Planters’ Parliament[76]
XV.A Scotch “Discoverer”[82]
XVI.The Escheator for Ulster[88]
XVII.More “Discoverers”[94]
XVIII.Lord Falkland’s Shame[98]
XIX.Strafford, Patent-Breaker[109]
XX.The Puritan Scriveners[118]
XXI.Rebellion Rewarded[124]
XXII.The “Famous Paper”[128]
XXIII.Lord Donegall’s Romances[137]
XXIV.Lawless Lords Justices[144]
XXV.How to Lose an Empire[148]
XXVI.The Planters’ Quarrel[155]
XXVII.Two Great Trials[162]
XXVIII.The Final Forgery[172]
XXIX.The Lords Divided[178]
Appendix[185]
Index[189]

AUTHORITIES.


Abbotsford Club Miscellany.
Annals of the Four Masters (O’Donovan).
Appeal Cases, House of Lords (1878 and 1911).
Calendar of Border Papers.
” ” Carew Papers.
” ” Clarendon Papers.
” ” Patent and Close Rolls (Erck, and Morrin).
” ” State Papers.
” ” Treasury Papers.
Camden Society’s Publications.
Chartuleries of St. Mary’s Abbey (Gilbert).
Commonwealth Statutes.
Concise View of the Irish Society.
Cromwellian Settlement (Prendergast).
Davies’ (Sir John) Reports.
Davies’ Tracts.
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica.
Dictionary of National Biography.
Docwra’s Narration.
Ecclesiastical Antiquities: Down, Connor, and Dromore (Dr. Reeves).
English in Ireland (Froude).
Fortescue Papers.
Granard, Life of Earls of (Forbes).
Hamilton MSS. (Lowry).
Hatfield MSS.
Hibernica (Harris).
Historical Manuscript Commission Reports.
History of Belfast (Benn).
History of Carrickfergus (McSkimin).
History of the Confederation (Gilbert).
History of Down and Connor (O’Laverty).
History of England (Froude).
History of England (Gardiner).
History of Gloucester (Rudder).
History of the Irish Presbyterian Church (Reid).
Histories of the Irish Rebellion, 1641 (Borlase and Temple).
History, Secret, of James I. (Sir A. Weldon).
History of London (Lambert).
Ireland (Sir James Ware).
Ireland in the Eighteenth Century (Lecky).
Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution (Prendergast).
Ireland Under the Stuarts (Bagwell).
Lansdowne Papers.
Liber Munerum (Lodge).
MacDonnells of Antrim (Hill).
Monasticum Hibernicon (Archdale).
Montgomery Manuscripts (Hill).
O’Donnell, Life of Hugh Roe (Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J.).
Old Belfast (Young).
O’Neill, Life of Hugh (Mitchel).
Ormonde (Carte).
Ormonde Papers.
Pacata Hibernia.
Plantation of Ulster (Hill).
Puritan and Cavalier (Lady Newdegate).
Ridgeway’s Reports, Vol. 2.
Salisbury Papers.
State Trials (Emlyn).
State Trials (Howell, Vol. 14).
State of Ireland, View of the (Spenser).
Strafford’s Letters.
Stuart Manuscripts.
Thurloe Papers (Birch).
Town Book of Belfast (Young).
Trevelyan Papers.
Tyrone and Tirconnell, Fate and Fortunes of (Meehan).
Types of Celtic Life (Hitchcock).
Ulster Land War (Bigger).
Ussher, Life of (Elrington).

LEADING DATES.


Con O’Neill accepts Earldom and Patent of Tyrone1st October, 1542.
Title of King of Ireland conferred on Henry VIII.23rd January, 1543.
Shane O’Neill slain by the MacDonaldsJune, 1567.
Act of Elizabeth confiscating Tyrone1569.
Patent to Claneboy O’Neills13th March, 1587.
Revolt of Hugh O’Neill1594.
Sir Con O’Neill, of Claneboy, adheres to Elizabeth1600.
O’Cahan, MacDonnell, and O’Byrne join Elizabeth1602.
Submission of Hugh O’Neill24th March, 1603.
Accession of James I.24th March, 1603.
Mountjoy (Earl of Devonshire) sails with O’Neill and O’Donnell for England26th May, 1603.
Patent to MacDonnell includes fourth of tidal Bann28th May, 1603.
King’s Letter appoints Chichester Governor Carrickfergus, with Belfast estate8th August, 1603.
King’s Letters regrant Tyrone to O’Neill23rd August, and 1st September, 1603.
Patents to Chichester under King’s Letter of 8th August10th September, and 5th November, 1603.
King’s Letter grants John Wakeman (Devonshire’s nominee) £100 a year8th November, 1603.
John Davies arrives as Solicitor-General20th November, 1603.
King’s Letter to Chichester, amending Letter of 8th August, 160329th December, 1603.
Wakeman’s Patent of St. Mary’s Abbey28th February, 1604.
Wakeman’s Patent of Meath, Westmeath, and Kilkenny lands5th March, 1604.
Chichester’s Patents, under amended Letter, take Lough Neagh and the Bann for life9th May, 1604.
Chichester appointed Lord Deputy15th October, 1604.
King’s Letter grants Thomas Irelande £100 a year6th December, 1604.
Partition of Claneboy with James Hamilton and Hugh MontgomeryJanuary, 1605.
Chichester sworn in as Deputy3rd (? 24th) February, 1605.
Thomas Irelande assigns £100 a year to Hamilton26th February, 1605.
King’s Letter to Hamilton for Claneboy, &c.16th April, 1605.
Chichester’s protest to Cecil against Hamilton’s grants19th June, 1605.
Chichester’s Commission for Inquisition into Hamilton’s grants26th June, 1605.
Inquisition at Antrim as to Hamilton’s grants12th July, 1605.
Chichester agrees to share spoil with HamiltonJuly, 1605.
Hamilton granted Coleraine Priory and Bann tithe fishing (under Thomas Irelande’s Letter)20th July, 1605.
Hamilton assigns Coleraine Priory and Bann tithe fishing to Captain Thomas Phillips23rd September, 1605.
Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor14th October, 1605.
Wakeman’s power-of-attorney to Auditor Ware21st October, 1605.
Hamilton’s Patent for Claneboy (King’s Letter, 16th April)5th November, 1605.
Gunpowder Plot affects Anglo-Irish policy5th November, 1605.
Hamilton’s Patent for Lough Neagh and Bann, &c., under Thomas Irelande’s Letter14th February, 1606.
Auditor Ware (Wakeman’s assignee) granted tidal Bann2nd March, 1606.
Auditor Ware assigns tidal Bann to Hamilton3rd March, 1606.
Hamilton’s Patent of Trim, &c., under Thomas Irelande’s Letter13th March, 1606.
Hamilton’s Patent of Westmeath lands under Thomas Irelande’s Letter17th March, 1606.
Earl of Devonshire’s will2nd April, 1606.
Earl of Devonshire’s death3rd April, 1606.
Hamilton assigns Lough Neagh and non-tidal Bann, &c., to Chichester10th April, 1606.
Hamilton’s Patent of Antrim and Down customs under Wakeman’s Letter11th April, 1606.
Hamilton assigns fourth of tidal Bann to Chichester14th May, 1606.
Hamilton’s Patent, Westmeath and Longford lands under Wakeman’s Letter18th May, 1606.
John Davies promoted Attorney-General29th May, 1606.
O’Cahan v. O’Neill tried by ChichesterMay and June, 1607.
Flight of the Earls (O’Neill and O’Donnell, &c.)14th September, 1607.
O’Cahan’s imprisonmentFebruary, 1608.
Hamilton’s Patent of Wexford lands under Thomas Irelande’s Letter13th May, 1608.
Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s rebellionMay-July, 1608.
Niall Garve O’Donnell’s imprisonment1608.
Patent to Bassett of all Hamilton conveyed to Chichester, with MacDonnell’s fourth of the tidal Bann1st July, 1608.
Bassett re-assigns contents of Patent to Chichester23rd January, 1609.
King’s Letter to Chichester for Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s estate30th July, 1609.
Inquisition at Limavady declares Bann Chichester’s30th August, 1609.
James I. grants Bann, Lough Foyle, and Derry to City of London28th January, 1610.
Hamilton’s additional Patent, St. Mary’s Abbey23rd February, 1610.
Hamilton receives £4,500 compensation for Bann and Lough FoyleJune, 1610.
Chichester annuls grant to MacDonnell of “fourth” of BannNovember, 1610.
Chichester’s surrender, via Archbishop Jones, of Bann and Lough Foyle3rd April, 1611.
Sham Corporations created to pack Parliament1612-1613.
Londoners’ Ulster Charter sealed29th March, 1613.
Planters’ Parliament meets18th May, 1613.
Recusants’ protest against packing ParliamentJuly, 1613.
Chichester created a peer25th February, 1614.
Planters’ Parliament escheats Ulster estates1615.
Planters’ Parliament dissolved24th October, 1615.
Sir John Davies’ legal reports published1615.
Chichester dismissed from Deputyship29th November, 1615.
Chichester appointed Lord High Treasurer2nd July, 1616.
Hugh O’Neill dies in Rome20th July, 1616.
Crown Rental describes Bann as Chichester’s1618-1619.
Deputy St. John investigates Wakeman-Irelande PatentsOctober, 1618.
Archbishop Jones, Lord Chancellor, dies10th April, 1619.
Davies resigns Attorney-Generalship30th October, 1619.
King’s Letter for re-grant to Chichester8th August, 1620.
Inquisition at Derry finds Bann for Londoners26th March, 1621.
Inquisition at Carrickfergus finds Bann and Lough Neagh for Chichester6th April, 1621.
Patent to Chichester includes Lough Neagh and the Bann20th November, 1621.
Chichester made Ambassador to PalatinateJanuary, 1622.
Chichester leases Lough Neagh to Londoners1622.
Wakeman Patents condemned by Exchequer Barons1623.
Chichester dies in London19th February, 1625.
James I. dies27th March, 1625.
Chichester’s embezzlements exposed1625-1626.
Sir John Davies diesDecember, 1626.
Sir A. Forbes’ fishery “discovery”21st October, 1628.
Opinion of ex-Baron Oglethorpe condemns Wakeman Patents26th April, 1630.
Strafford, Lord Lieutenant3rd July, 1633.
Londoners’ Irish estate seized by Charles I.1635.
Inquisition at Wicklow annuls Wakeman Patents21st April, 1636.
King’s Letter requiring surrender of Lough Neagh from Edward Chichester24th September, 1638.
Edward Chichester surrenders Lough Neagh and the Bann1st July, 1640.
Patent to Edward Chichester for estate (less fisheries)22nd September, 1640.
Commonwealth ordinance restores Londoners’ estate4th September, 1655.
Cromwell leases Lough Neagh to Clotworthy13th May, 1656.
Henry Cromwell inserts Bann in Clotworthy’s lease14th August, 1656.
Cromwell’s Charter restores Londoners’ estate24th March, 1657.
Oliver Cromwell dies1658.
Charles II. confirms lease to Clotworthy15th November, 1660.
Charles II. grants reversion of Clotworthy’s lease to Lord Donegall28th February, 1661.
Patent to Lord Donegall of reversion of Bann and Lough Neagh3rd July, 1661.
Charter of Charles II. restores estate to Londoners10th April, 1662.
Chichester Patent of 1640 “enrolled”1665.
Clotworthy’s lease expires14th August, 1755.
Lord Donegall’s litigation with Londoners1781-1801.
Londoners’ ejectment claims Bann from Lord Donegall1868.
Londoners accept lease of Bann under Lord Donegall1872.
Public right in Lough Neagh challenged1873-1878.
Public right in Lough Neagh annulled1908-1910.