How did this happen?
'The answer is that it sprang from the security of tenure which the plantation settlement supplied.
The landlords were in every case bound to make fixed estates to their tenants at the risk of sequestration and forfeiture.

Hence their power of selling their plantation rights and improvements.

This is the origin of Ulster tenant-right.' Yet the work went on slowly enough in some districts.

The viceroy, Chichester, was not neglected in the distribution of the spoils.

He not only got the O'Dogherty's country, Innishown, but a large tract in Antrim, including the towns of Carrickfergus and Belfast.