Again, the earl had given his daughter in marriage to O’Cahan with a portion of goods.  After they had lived together for eight years, O’Cahan was induced to withdraw himself from the earl, and at the same time, by the procurement of his setters on, he turned off the earl’s daughter, kept her fortune to himself, and married another.  The father appealed to the lord deputy for justice in vain.  He then took proceedings against O’Cahan, at the assizes in Dungannon.  But the defendant produced a warrant from the lord deputy, forbidding the judges to entertain the question, as it was one for the Lord Bishop of Derry.  The Bishop of Derry, however, was the chief instigator of the divorce, and therefore no indifferent judge in the case.  Thus the earl’s cause was frustrated, and he could get no manner of justice therein, no more than he obtained in many other weighty matters that concerned him.  The next complaint is about outrages committed by one Henry Oge O’Neill, one Henry M’Felemey and others, who at the instigation of the lord deputy, ‘farther to trouble the earl,’ went out as a wood-kerne to rob and spoil the earl and his nephew, and their tenants.  They committed many murders, burnings, and other mischievous acts, and were always maintained and manifestly relieved amongst the deputy’s tenants and their friends in Clandeboye, to whom they openly sold the spoils.  They went on so for the space of two years, and the earl could get no justice, till at length they murdered one of the deputy’s own tenants.  Then he saw them prosecuted, and the result was, that the earl cut them all off within a quarter of a year after.  But the lord deputy was not at all pleased with this.  Therefore he picked up ‘a poor rascally knave’ and brought him to Dublin, where he persuaded him to accuse above threescore of the earl’s tenants of relieving rebels with meat, although it was taken from them by force.  For the rebels killed their cattle in the fields, and left them dead there, not being able to carry them away; burnt their houses, took what they could of their household stuff, killed and mangled themselves.  ’Yet were they, upon report of that poor knave, who was himself foremost in doing these mischiefs, all taken and brought to their trial by law, where they were, through their innocency, acquitted, to their no small cost; so as betwixt the professed enemy, and the private envy of our governors, seeking thereby to advance themselves, there was no way left for the poor subject to live.’

One Joice Geverard, a Dutchman, belonging to the deputy, was taken prisoner on his way from Carrickfergus to Toome, and he was compelled to pay to his captors a ransom of 30 l.  For this the lord deputy assessed 60 l. on the county, and appointed one-half of it to be taken from O’Neil’s tenants, being of another county, and at least twelve miles distant from the scene of the outrage, perpetrated by a wood-kerne, ’and themselves being daily killed and spoiled by the said wood-kerne, and never no redress had to