From what seems to be authentic abstracts it appears that out of a nominal total of 511,465 acres in the escheated counties rather more than two-fifths were assigned to British undertakers. Outside of the Londoners' district at least, the shares of Scotch and English grantees were about equal. Rather more than one-fifth went to the Church, including 12,300 acres for education, and rather more than one-fifth to servitors and natives combined, about 60,000 acres to patentees outside the settlement, and something over 6,000 acres to individual Irishmen of whom Connor Roe Maguire's share was the largest. To servitors and natives about an equal area was given; but the latter were many times as numerous, so that their lots were very small, often as little as forty or fifty acres. 8,536 acres were devoted to schools at Enniskillen and Mountnorris, and to sites for towns at those places, as well as at Dungannon, Rathmullen, and Virginia. Many sales, exchanges, and dispositions by will were made during the reign of James, but the proportional distribution remained about the same.[80] [Sidenote: Results and expectations.] The permanent effects of the Ulster settlement have been very great, though statesmen like Carew could see that there were many dangers ahead. The tone of the Court and of all who wished to please the King by prophesying smooth things may be gathered from the masque which Ben Jonson produced at Somerset's marriage. Four Irishmen are brought on the stage, who speak in an almost unintelligible jargon. An epilogue in verse alludes to the plantation, whereby James was to raise Ireland from barbarism and poverty, 'and in her all the fruits of blessing plant.' The letter-writer Chamberlain says many people disliked the performance, thinking it 'no time as the case stands to exasperate the nation by making it ridiculous.' And most modern readers will be of the same opinion.[81] FOOTNOTES: [55] _Le Case de Gavelkind_, 3 Jac., and _Le Case de Tanistry_, 5 Jac., in Davies' reports, 1628. [56] A Ballyboe varied from sixty to 120 acres, and a Ballybetagh was about 1,000. An introduction to the very large and complicated question of Celtic tenures may be had through Maine's _Early History of Institutions_ and Joyce's _Social History of Ancient Ireland_, 1903. [57] Fenton to Salisbury, September 9, 1607; Chichester to same, September 17; St. John to same, October 9; Salisbury to Chichester and Privy Council to same, September 27. [58] Chichester to Salisbury, October 2, 1605; to the King, October 31, 1610. Bacon to Davies, October 23, 1607, in Spedding's _Life_, iv. 5, and his 'Considerations touching the plantation of Ireland, presented to the King' on January 1, 1608-9, _ib._ pp. 123-125. [59] Hill's _Montgomery MSS._, p. 19.