Coote, who secured large estates in Leitrim, Sligo, Roscommon, and Queen's County; Sir Toby Caulfield, who had served under Mountjoy, and who obtained lands in Tyrone and Armagh, and was created Viscount Caulfield; and Sir Arthur Chichester, the lord-deputy, and the superintendent of the Ulster plantation, who took advantage of his position to secure the whole territory of Innishowen in Donegal, besides lands in Tyrone, and became Baron of Belfast. Another class of persons who made their fortunes at this time were clergymen. A newly ordained youth, like Adam Loftus or Dr. Jones, would come over as chaplain to the lord-deputy, and quickly be pushed into a deanery, a few big livings, or a bishopric, and living comfortably at Dublin, draw his large income, which he invested in land. Others leased out the Church lands, and took large fines for renewals, or secured long leases of Church lands to themselves at low rents. More than one ample estate was put together in this fashion, and more than one family founded which will be found in the Peerage of Ireland. It was at this time and in this way that the new English interest became developed. The new adventurers hung together and intermarried with each other. They did not exhibit the tendency to amalgamate with the people whom they found in Ireland to nearly the same extent as those who had gone before them. They were essentially strangers in the land, who felt that they had gone in for a good speculation, and who would have to do their uttermost to maintain their position. At the |