The judgment of the Court, however, turned mainly on the “additional records” prior to the reign of Charles II. which have already been analysed. Rightly regarded, every one of them multiplied discredit on the Donegall title, but proofs had not then accumulated that official frauds were palmed off as Royal grants, and instruments of crime as genuine acts of kingly power. It is, therefore, hardly to be wondered at that parchments of apparently reputable origin should sway a Court guided by the reticences of an archivist—the main of whose history and compilations met with no contradiction. So judgment went against the fishermen and an end was decreed to public right in Lough Neagh A.D. 1908. An appeal was taken, and was heard in the same year. The chief deliverance of the Appellate Court was made by Lord Justice Holmes, who, too, had been captured by the “additional records.” He said:—“Having some experience of Ulster titles, I have been surprised to find that of King Charles II. to the fisheries of Lough Neagh and the Bann at the date of the Patent of 1661 so satisfactorily supported by earlier instruments.” If they be “satisfactory,” then what must other “Ulster titles” be like? Lord Justice Fitzgibbon remarked:—“I cannot believe that all the documents of title in the case rest upon usurpation or pretence.” This Court also decided against the possibility of public rights of fishing in Irish inland waters, because no such rights exist in England. The Irish Fishery Act of 1842, however, recognises that “a general public right of fishing” may exist in fresh water, but its provisions went for naught, as Lord Chancellor Walker explained that this was a “misapprehension as to the law” on the part of Parliament. In other words, mere enactments may be ignored. The history of the Statute thus slighted shows that, instead of its words being a “misapprehension as to the law,” they were the considered language of the strongest and most representative Select Committee that ever dealt with an Irish measure. The Bill was discussed by a Committee of 27 members, including lawyers like Daniel O’Connell and Lalor Sheil, as well as the Solicitor-General for Ireland and the Chief Secretary. The landed gentry manned the panel, and the ancestors of peers like Lord Leitrim, Lord Newry, Lord Downshire, Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Fermoy, and Lord Dunraven, served upon it, with several members from Ulster counties, and one from the City of London.