without any estate in the lands which had borne his name for centuries. Docwra reported Mountjoy's decision to O'Cahan, who 'bade the devil take all Englishmen and as many as put their trust in them.' Docwra thought this indignation justified, but realised that nothing could be done with a hostile Viceroy, and advised O'Cahan to make the best terms he could with Tyrone. Chichester was from the first inclined to favour O'Cahan's claim, but the Earl managed to keep him in subjection until 1606, when the quarrel broke out again. Tyrone seized O'Cahan's cattle by the strong hand, which Davies says was his first 'notorious violent act' since his submission, and the whole question soon came up for the consideration of the Government. Early in 1607 the two chiefs came to a temporary agreement by which O'Cahan agreed to pay a certain tribute, for which he pledged one-third of his territory, and in consideration of which Tyrone gave him a grant of his lands. O'Cahan was inclined to stand to this agreement, but Tyrone said it was voidable at the wish of either party. A further cause of dispute arose from O'Cahan's proposal to repudiate Tyrone's illegitimate daughter, with whom he had lately gone through the marriage ceremony, and to take back a previous and more lawful wife. His fear was lest he should have to give up the dowry also, and especially lest his cattle should be seized to satisfy the claim.[30] [Sidenote: Death of Devonshire, 1606.] [Sidenote: Claims O'Cahan and Tyrone.] [Sidenote: The Crown intervenes.] Devonshire died on April 3, 1606, and Tyrone thus lost his most thoroughgoing supporter at court. It was in the following October that O'Cahan's cattle were seized, and in May 1607 that chief petitioned for leave to surrender his country to the King, receiving a fresh grant of it free from Tyrone's interference. He afterwards expressed his willingness to pay the old accustomed services to Tyrone. The two chiefs were summoned before the Council, and Tyrone so far forgot himself as to snatch a paper from O'Cahan's hand and tear it in the Viceroy's presence; but for this he humbly apologised. The case was remitted to the King, and it was afterwards arranged that both parties should go over to plead their several causes; peace being kept in the meantime on the basis of the late agreement. The Irish lawyers were of opinion that O'Cahan's country was really at the mercy of the Crown on the ground that, though it had been found by inquisition to be part of Tyrone's, the Earl's jurisdiction only entitled him to certain fixed services and not to the freehold. That they held to have been the position of Con Bacagh O'Neill, and Tyrone's last grant only professed to restore him to what his grandfather had.[31] [Sidenote: Assizes in Donegal.] [Sidenote: Rory O'Donnell created Earl of Tyrconnel.] [Sidenote: Extreme pretensions of Tyrconnel.] [Sidenote: His character.] [Sidenote: Discontent of Neill Garv.]