On the 28th August, 1627, Charles I. declared the Crown was rightfully entitled to the Desmond lands annexed by Boyle under Chichester, and in 1628 Sir William Power journeyed to London to feed his grudge and fill his pocket. He saw Mr. Hadsor, the King’s Lawyer in Irish affairs, who certified that Lord Cork’s Patent of 1614 was unsigned, and that he “believed it may be false.” The reflection on Chichester’s Deputyship which this carried was far-reaching. Hadsor valued the Royal interest in the lands at £50,000 (now half a million). He complained that the Attorney-General gave away his legal secrets to Lord Cork, and on the 23rd August, 1628, the murder of the venal Duke of Buckingham by Felton at Portsmouth removed one mainstay to dishonesty. So on the 3rd September, 1628, King’s Letters condemning the grant were sent to Lord Falkland by Hadsor. As to the rest of Power’s “discovery” Hadsor (as before) said nothing. Possibly after the Attorney-General’s treachery he thought his hands too full to attack the Wakeman Patents. He was well-advised, for hardly had he taken action when the inevitable fairy godfather to rascaldom lit upon the scene. Lord Cork invoked the help of other corrupt courtiers, and a “coat of darkness” was thrown over the traffickings of landsharks both in Munster and Ulster. This saved the Desmond Estate for Boyle, and by the same agencies the onslaught on the Wakeman Patents was broken down. The knaves were all interlinked. Later in the same year (1628) Colonel Forbes, a Scotch laird (ancestor of Lord Granard), who had come to Ireland in 1620, with his clan, to quell disturbances, appeared as a “discoverer.” Forbes had been rewarded for past services with a baronetcy and grants of land in Leitrim and Longford. Undiscouraged by former failures, he brought the Wakeman Patents anew under the eye of Charles I.—probably reckoning that Buckingham’s death had banished the chief obstacle to justice. Forbes’s petition was referred to the Commissioners for Irish Causes in London, and they reported favourably on it to the King. Falkland was ordered by his Majesty to recover the property for the Crown and to confer on Forbes one-third of the Ulster Fisheries with a gift of £300.