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January: Brian "Oge" O Rourke - "The O Rourke" was besieged in Leitrim Castle in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht by Sir Oliver Lambert the English appointed Governor in the Connacht Province and when he was to die there of a fever the defenders in the castle surrendered.

The Irish Septs in the Ulster Province were now also in big trouble Donnell O Kane - Ua Cahan from the Northern Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, which was the second Sept to the O Nialls in the Ui Niaill Tuath - Family territory - also submitted to the English and was promised the return of his territory in Co. Derry in return but as usual not for long. - Simon Jordan a merchant built the Castle at Down Patrick in Co. Down in the south - east of Ulster, against the Irish Septs there, which was previously the region of the old Irish kingdom of Mourne - Mountains of Mourne. - Sir Basil Brooke was given Donegal City on the Eske Estuary in Co. Donegal in Western Ulster and had it made stronger against the Northern Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Septs and Sir William Stewart the Plantation Undertaker for James 1st built a Castle at Five Mile Town in Co. Tyrone in Central Ulster.

Edmund Fitz Gibbon Fitz Gerald the last White Knight who had sold out his kinsman James Fitz Gerald the 16th Sugan - Straw Earl of Desmond, to the English for 1,000 pounds, which had led to the complete collapse of the Fitz Gerald Desmond dynasty, had died also and he was buried in the Dominican Friary in Limerick in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province while other branches of the Geraldines were the Fitz Maurices who were known as the Red Knights and the Fitz Geralds the Knights of the Valley.

Mac Donagh Mac Carthy the Lord of Dhallow built a Castle at Kanturk in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, which it is still there.

Hugh "Dubh" O Niall and Rory O Donnell who had gone to England were received by James 1st and they submitted to him and Hugh "Dubh" O Niall lost his territory around Loch Neagh and the River Bann and of his sub - Chiefs, Sir Henry O Niall and the O Nialls of the Fews had their territory in the south of Co. Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province separated while the Northern Cenel Conaill O Donnell's lost Inishowen to one of their sub - Septs, the O Dohertys, and the River Erne to the English Crown as Ulster was further divided to be ruled. The town of Virginia in the Ui Briuin O Reilly's kingdom in East Breifne in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster was also founded on Loch Ramor by James1st for English Plantation while in Co. Meath in the north - east of the Leinster Province 29 Episcopalian Church of England ministers were installed on a stipend of 30 pound a year but only 3 of these could speak any Irish. Meanwhile the Scottish Lowlanders bought with them their own Presbyterian ministers who basically did their own thing for the next 20 years.

August: Sir Henry Brouncker the new English President in the Munster Province appointed by James 1st issued a proclamation ordering all Catholic Priests, especially the Jesuits, to leave Ireland by the end of September and began searches to run them down and was to enforce the Church of England services onto the towns under his control until he was to die in 1607 AD, which was to finally bring to an end his particular strong sectarian policies there.

1605 AD February: Sir Arthur Chichester took over from Sir George Carey as the English Lord Deputy in Ireland who was from Devonshire in England and he was granted 52 Town lands in the Ulster Province by James 1st and was also to use strong measures against the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish and the Catholic priests and put up a proposal to James 1st to implement further English Episcopalian and Scottish Plantations in Ulster. James 1st also appointed Church of England Bishops in all of the Irish Catholic dioceses and all of the Catholic priests were ordered to get out of Ireland and he also granted Newtown Stewart in Ulster to James Clapham - Cliphane this year. March: James 1st removed the authority of all the Irish Kings and Chiefs over their Septs in Ireland, which was to ensure that the people in Ireland were only to be subject to him and in July: He proclaimed that there was to be no toleration of Irish Catholics who were to be forced to attend Episcopalian services while all Catholic priests especially the Jesuits must be out of Ireland by December 10th. This was what Sir Arthur Chichester and Sir John Davies had suggested to him previously and full of authority themselves they began harsh persecution by imposing fines and imprisonments on the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish in Ireland, in fact, their treatment was so bad that the Irish sent delegates over to see James 1st again who cautioned Chichester to back off some in case he brought about a revolt.

1606 AD Sir John Davies previously the English Solicitor - General in Ireland and the persecutor of the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish was now made the English Attorney - General in Ireland and was to continue in that position until 1619 AD while Sir Arthur Chichester put forward another scheme for the English Episcopalian Plantation for all of Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, which was the territory of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin O Reillys and for the Scottish Presbyterian Planters in the north to be resettled into Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province.

Irish Tanistry, which was a re - division of Irish land by the Irish Septs of 300 to 400 square miles / 20 miles x 20 miles was outlawed as English Law was to be the only law allowed in Ireland and an Act was passed, "To Remedy Defective Titles." Despite the long and constant ethnic and religious persecution by those in power in England the Irish minds were still their own and they continued to carry on with their Irish traditions and regardless of what the English Government did in Ireland the Catholic priests were always held in great esteem. The Irish Septs still continued to strength their extended families and the Irish Chieftains were always appointed by the Tuaths and had "no individual right of inheritance to any Irish land." The Irish Kings & Chiefs had only held their territories through their Tanistry within a 4 Generation Family group, which could be redefined in each generation by intermarriage of the individual Septs, as to the Irish, the land belonged to all the people something the English in their individual culture of greed, always operating as individuals, could not understand.

Sir Arthur Chichester the English Lord Deputy in Ireland was given permission to raise a force of 2,000 men against the Irish Septs if an emergency arose and he proposed that an English President should also now be installed in the Ulster Province. Montgomery and Hamilton had by now secured land for themselves in Co. Antrim, Co. Armagh & Co. Down and any land not taken up by the Episcopalian English Planters, and the Presbyterian Scots were now Planted also into the Ards Peninsular who were dour, thrifty and single - minded and they soon became the majority there in the population.

The Catholic Irish were now also banned from entering the City of Cork in Southern Munster.

+On to 1607 AD - 1610 AD

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