A few notices from his report will give an idea of the state of Ulster at the commencement of this great social revolution:-- Armagh was one of the six counties confiscated by James I.The territory had belonged to the O'Neills, the O'Hanlons, the O'Carrols, and M'Kanes, whose people were all involved more or less in the fortunes of the Earl of Tyrone, who wielded sovereign power over this portion of Ulster.

The plantation scheme was said to be the work of the Privy Council of Ireland, and submitted by them for the adoption of the English Government.

It was part of the plan that all the lands escheated in each county should be divided into four parts, whereof two should be subdivided into proportions consisting of about 1,000 acres a piece; a third part into proportions of 1,500 acres; and the fourth in proportions of 2,000 acres.

Every proportion was to be made into a parish, a church was to be erected on it, and the minister endowed with glebe land.

If an incumbent of a parish of 1,000 acres he was to have sixty; if of 1,500 acres, ninety; and if 2,000 acres, he was to have 120 acres; and the whole tithes and duties of every parish should be allotted to the incumbent as well as the glebe.