Edward Lord Chichester then sat in the Irish House of Lords, and his son, Sir Arthur, in the Irish Lower House; but they never took the side of Strafford’s enemies, although both assemblies were worked upon by Sir John Clotworthy and the Earl of Cork to purvey testimony against him. This fact bears vitally on future events in view of allegations made in 1661 by Sir Arthur (then Lord Donegall) to befool Charles II. into making him a regrant of Lough Neagh and the Bann. Sir John Clotworthy, who was Pym’s instrument in promoting Strafford’s impeachment, sat with Sir Arthur in Dublin as member for Antrim; and, if the Chichesters had a grievance against the Lord Lieutenant, Clotworthy would not fail to refer to it in his evidence, even if the family kept silence. The report of Strafford’s trial proves that, while Clotworthy, Lord Cork, and others loudly testified against him, no complaint of injustice on Chichester’s behalf was made. This attitude amounted to a confession that the fisheries which had been wrongly come by were rightly taken away. Still, amidst the uncertainties of the times, the family were ready to seize upon any chance that presented itself to win them back. Departing from an otherwise universal practice, they left the new Patent unenrolled, although the Crown at once enrolled the surrender. Their omission was the more striking because the Patent was the only unimpeachable evidence of title to their estates which they possessed. Neglect could not be imputed as the reason for it. Their calculation evidently was that, by keeping the terms of the Patent secret, they might by some turn of fortune be enabled to recapture the fisheries without the world knowing that they had been forced to yield them up. Nor was this a far-fetched expectation in those days, as, even if the surrender became public, everyone knew that a surrender was not an unusual prelude to a regrant. No one, therefore, could affirm, as long as the Patent could not be inspected, that they had no claim to Lough Neagh or the Bann. Non-enrolment hid its scope from inquirers, and was part of a design to attempt the recovery of the coveted waters whenever occasion offered. Strafford’s execution, and the untimely death of Wandesforde, who perished in grief at the Lord Lieutenant’s fate, helped their plans. Then sudden as a lightning flash to sear the meshes of their webs broke the Ulster Rebellion of October, 1641.