Adjoining Tyrone lay the territories of O’Donnell, Earl of Tirconnell, who had been O’Neill’s ally in the wars. The fisheries of Lough Foyle were almost as valuable as those of the Bann; and naturally O’Donnell also fell under the Deputy’s displeasure. Another ex-rebel, Lord Maguire, owned Fermanagh and swept Lough Erne. There were sub-chiefs besides, equally obnoxious by reason of their possessions. That such owners, who, despite their fluent Latin and Shakesperian English, used the Irish tongue and practised Popery, should be allowed to breathe in their own land was an evident danger to the State. Wherefore Chichester poured into the King’s ear, via Cecil, the leprous distilment of his greed. No overt act could be suggested against the Ulster lords. Their circumspection, after being pardoned and reinstated, was proportioned to their knowledge of the Deputy’s unscrupulousness. Chichester boasted that a dog could not bark in the North without his hearing of it, and this was not mere brag. Sheriffs, under-sheriffs, escheators, inquisitors, surveyors, mapsmen, tax-collectors, and tithe-collectors infested the Province. Kinsmen of the beaten chiefs who, in the hope of sharing their estates, had taken the English side, were watchful correspondents of Dublin Castle. When James succeeded Elizabeth, her officers in local forts supplied the necessary rumours of warlike preparations or Spanish descents for London consumption to further the plans of the landsharks. Once Chichester was firm in the saddle he resolved, a month after Hamilton conveyed to him the fisheries and territories under the Patent of the 14th February, 1606, to take over also from him one-fourth of the tidal Bann. This he did by assignment of the 14th March, 1606. The “fourth” belonged to Sir Randal MacDonnell, under a Patent of 1603; and the Deputy spent himself in expedients to secure a colour of title for it. He kept the transfer secret until he could invent a device for “legally” relieving MacDonnell of his rights and set on Hamilton, with the help of Captain Phillips, to assail Sir Randal’s Patent by a suit in the “Castle Chamber” before himself. All this was done within three years of the grants to O’Neill and MacDonnell, when they must have been fresh in the mind of every official.