Leading Dates
| Con O’Neill accepts Earldom and Patent of Tyrone | 1st October, 1542. |
| Title of King of Ireland conferred on Henry VIII. | 23rd January, 1543. |
| Shane O’Neill slain by the MacDonalds | June, 1567. |
| Act of Elizabeth confiscating Tyrone | 1569. |
| Patent to Claneboy O’Neills | 13th March, 1587. |
| Revolt of Hugh O’Neill | 1594. |
| Sir Con O’Neill, of Claneboy, adheres to Elizabeth | 1600. |
| O’Cahan, MacDonnell, and O’Byrne join Elizabeth | 1602. |
| Submission of Hugh O’Neill | 24th March, 1603. |
| Accession of James I. | 24th March, 1603. |
| Mountjoy (Earl of Devonshire) sails with O’Neill and O’Donnell for England | 26th May, 1603. |
| Patent to MacDonnell includes fourth of tidal Bann | 28th May, 1603. |
| King’s Letter appoints Chichester Governor Carrickfergus, with Belfast estate | 8th August, 1603. |
| King’s Letters regrant Tyrone to O’Neill | 23rd August, and 1st September, 1603. |
| Patents to Chichester under King’s Letter of 8th August | 10th September, and 5th November, 1603. |
| King’s Letter grants John Wakeman (Devonshire’s nominee) £100 a year | 8th November, 1603. |
| John Davies arrives as Solicitor-General | 20th November, 1603. |
| King’s Letter to Chichester, amending Letter of 8th August, 1603 | 29th December, 1603. |
| Wakeman’s Patent of St. Mary’s Abbey | 28th February, 1604. |
| Wakeman’s Patent of Meath, Westmeath, and Kilkenny lands | 5th March, 1604. |
| Chichester’s Patents, under amended Letter, take Lough Neagh and the Bann for life | 9th May, 1604. |
| Chichester appointed Lord Deputy | 15th October, 1604. |
| King’s Letter grants Thomas Irelande £100 a year | 6th December, 1604. |
| Partition of Claneboy with James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery | January, 1605. |
| Chichester sworn in as Deputy | 3rd (? 24th) February, 1605. |
| Thomas Irelande assigns £100 a year to Hamilton | 26th February, 1605. |
| King’s Letter to Hamilton for Claneboy, &c. | 16th April, 1605. |
| Chichester’s protest to Cecil against Hamilton’s grants | 19th June, 1605. |
| Chichester’s Commission for Inquisition into Hamilton’s grants | 26th June, 1605. |
| Inquisition at Antrim as to Hamilton’s grants | 12th July, 1605. |
| Chichester agrees to share spoil with Hamilton | July, 1605. |
| Hamilton granted Coleraine Priory and Bann tithe fishing (under Thomas Irelande’s Letter) | 20th July, 1605. |
| Hamilton assigns Coleraine Priory and Bann tithe fishing to Captain Thomas Phillips | 23rd September, 1605. |
| Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor | 14th October, 1605. |
| Wakeman’s power-of-attorney to Auditor Ware | 21st October, 1605. |
| Hamilton’s Patent for Claneboy (King’s Letter, 16th April) | 5th November, 1605. |
| Gunpowder Plot affects Anglo-Irish policy | 5th November, 1605. |
| Hamilton’s Patent for Lough Neagh and Bann, &c., under Thomas Irelande’s Letter | 14th February, 1606. |
| Auditor Ware (Wakeman’s assignee) granted tidal Bann | 2nd March, 1606. |
| Auditor Ware assigns tidal Bann to Hamilton | 3rd March, 1606. |
| Hamilton’s Patent of Trim, &c., under Thomas Irelande’s Letter | 13th March, 1606. |
| Hamilton’s Patent of Westmeath lands under Thomas Irelande’s Letter | 17th March, 1606. |
| Earl of Devonshire’s will | 2nd April, 1606. |
| Earl of Devonshire’s death | 3rd April, 1606. |
| Hamilton assigns Lough Neagh and non-tidal Bann, &c., to Chichester | 10th April, 1606. |
| Hamilton’s Patent of Antrim and Down customs under Wakeman’s Letter | 11th April, 1606. |
| Hamilton assigns fourth of tidal Bann to Chichester | 14th May, 1606. |
| Hamilton’s Patent, Westmeath and Longford lands under Wakeman’s Letter | 18th May, 1606. |
| John Davies promoted Attorney-General | 29th May, 1606. |
| O’Cahan v. O’Neill tried by Chichester | May and June, 1607. |
| Flight of the Earls (O’Neill and O’Donnell, &c.) | 14th September, 1607. |
| O’Cahan’s imprisonment | February, 1608. |
| Hamilton’s Patent of Wexford lands under Thomas Irelande’s Letter | 13th May, 1608. |
| Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s rebellion | May-July, 1608. |
| Niall Garve O’Donnell’s imprisonment | 1608. |
| Patent to Bassett of all Hamilton conveyed to Chichester, with MacDonnell’s fourth of the tidal Bann | 1st July, 1608. |
| Bassett re-assigns contents of Patent to Chichester | 23rd January, 1609. |
| King’s Letter to Chichester for Sir Cahir O’Doherty’s estate | 30th July, 1609. |
| Inquisition at Limavady declares Bann Chichester’s | 30th August, 1609. |
| James I. grants Bann, Lough Foyle, and Derry to City of London | 28th January, 1610. |
| Hamilton’s additional Patent, St. Mary’s Abbey | 23rd February, 1610. |
| Hamilton receives £4,500 compensation for Bann and Lough Foyle | June, 1610. |
| Chichester annuls grant to MacDonnell of “fourth” of Bann | November, 1610. |
| Chichester’s surrender, via Archbishop Jones, of Bann and Lough Foyle | 3rd April, 1611. |
| Sham Corporations created to pack Parliament | 1612-1613. |
| Londoners’ Ulster Charter sealed | 29th March, 1613. |
| Planters’ Parliament meets | 18th May, 1613. |
| Recusants’ protest against packing Parliament | July, 1613. |
| Chichester created a peer | 25th February, 1614. |
| Planters’ Parliament escheats Ulster estates | 1615. |
| Planters’ Parliament dissolved | 24th October, 1615. |
| Sir John Davies’ legal reports published | 1615. |
| Chichester dismissed from Deputyship | 29th November, 1615. |
| Chichester appointed Lord High Treasurer | 2nd July, 1616. |
| Hugh O’Neill dies in Rome | 20th July, 1616. |
| Crown Rental describes Bann as Chichester’s | 1618-1619. |
| Deputy St. John investigates Wakeman-Irelande Patents | October, 1618. |
| Archbishop Jones, Lord Chancellor, dies | 10th April, 1619. |
| Davies resigns Attorney-Generalship | 30th October, 1619. |
| King’s Letter for re-grant to Chichester | 8th August, 1620. |
| Inquisition at Derry finds Bann for Londoners | 26th March, 1621. |
| Inquisition at Carrickfergus finds Bann and Lough Neagh for Chichester | 6th April, 1621. |
| Patent to Chichester includes Lough Neagh and the Bann | 20th November, 1621. |
| Chichester made Ambassador to Palatinate | January, 1622. |
| Chichester leases Lough Neagh to Londoners | 1622. |
| Wakeman Patents condemned by Exchequer Barons | 1623. |
| Chichester dies in London | 19th February, 1625. |
| James I. dies | 27th March, 1625. |
| Chichester’s embezzlements exposed | 1625-1626. |
| Sir John Davies dies | December, 1626. |
| Sir A. Forbes’ fishery “discovery” | 21st October, 1628. |
| Opinion of ex-Baron Oglethorpe condemns Wakeman Patents | 26th April, 1630. |
| Strafford, Lord Lieutenant | 3rd July, 1633. |
| Londoners’ Irish estate seized by Charles I. | 1635. |
| Inquisition at Wicklow annuls Wakeman Patents | 21st April, 1636. |
| King’s Letter requiring surrender of Lough Neagh from Edward Chichester | 24th September, 1638. |
| Edward Chichester surrenders Lough Neagh and the Bann | 1st July, 1640. |
| Patent to Edward Chichester for estate (less fisheries) | 22nd September, 1640. |
| Commonwealth ordinance restores Londoners’ estate | 4th September, 1655. |
| Cromwell leases Lough Neagh to Clotworthy | 13th May, 1656. |
| Henry Cromwell inserts Bann in Clotworthy’s lease | 14th August, 1656. |
| Cromwell’s Charter restores Londoners’ estate | 24th March, 1657. |
| Oliver Cromwell dies | 1658. |
| Charles II. confirms lease to Clotworthy | 15th November, 1660. |
| Charles II. grants reversion of Clotworthy’s lease to Lord Donegall | 28th February, 1661. |
| Patent to Lord Donegall of reversion of Bann and Lough Neagh | 3rd July, 1661. |
| Charter of Charles II. restores estate to Londoners | 10th April, 1662. |
| Chichester Patent of 1640 “enrolled” | 1665. |
| Clotworthy’s lease expires | 14th August, 1755. |
| Lord Donegall’s litigation with Londoners | 1781-1801. |
| Londoners’ ejectment claims Bann from Lord Donegall | 1868. |
| Londoners accept lease of Bann under Lord Donegall | 1872. |
| Public right in Lough Neagh challenged | 1873-1878. |
| Public right in Lough Neagh annulled | 1908-1910. |
THE GREAT FRAUD OF ULSTER