| 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. |
