In one respect he slightly changed his tactics. Instead of working on a single Patent, he got two made out for him—one containing the estates lawfully his, and the other those he had crookedly come by. This plan of a double issue had not been sanctioned by the King, and in other respects he also disregarded the Royal Letter. Not long, however, was he left in peace. Probably the Corporation got wind of the cheat, for within two months James I. took significant action. The Lord High Treasurer was suddenly ordered abroad on a mission to the Palatinate in January, 1622. His co-mate and brother-in-exile, Sir Oliver St. John, who had just been raised to the peerage as Lord Grandison, was at the same time removed from the Deputyship. It was an unexpected downfall; and evidently some detractor had again slandered them to his Majesty. Both had to quit Ireland forthwith; but their removal was dignified with solemn rites, as befitted their estate. No occasion for malicious glee was afforded to the watchful natives. Wholesome monitions were privily administered, and a new discipline as to Patents was laid down, but public scandal was avoided. In the following May, when they were well away, the King issued a biting direction to “make stay” of future grants, surrenders, and confirmations “till some safe course might be taken for the preserving of his rents and tenures.” Chichester, too, was forced before his departure to make a lease of Lough Neagh to the Londoners in perpetuity at a rent of £100 a year. As the Lough feeds the Bann, this undid much of his victory, and amounted to an admission that the river belonged to the Corporation. It was through Buckingham’s favour that the Lord High Treasurer was sent abroad, and, as his cash defalcations had probably became as notorious at Court as his Patent conjurings, the King, doubtless, sanctioned his German mission to rid Ireland of his presence. An outcry which, had he remained at home, might have led to his being brought to justice, was thereby stifled. He was told to his face in the King’s presence by one of the Privy Council that he had so profited by the Plantation that his conduct was “against the honour of the King and the justice of the Kingdom.” Chichester never returned to the country which for twenty years he had afflicted. In January, 1625, he died in London, three weeks before the death of James I. Within three months steps were taken by Charles I. to compel his heir to make good the £10,000 embezzled from the Crown out of the rents of the forfeited estates. Fact-free Mr. Froude frames the wretch’s portrait as “the great Viceroy of Ireland—of all Englishmen who settled in the country the most useful to it.” Mr. Bagwell certifies in “Ireland Under the Stuarts” that “his integrity is unquestionable”! CHAPTER XVII. MORE “DISCOVERERS.”