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earnest, in the early pari; of the reign of James I. In the last years 

 of the 1 6th century we find the following distinguished names : — 

 Sir A. Chichester, Sir Foulke Conway, founder of the house of 

 Hertford ; John Skeffmgton, who married a daughter of Sir Hugh 

 Clotworthy, of Muckamore, County Antrim, and from whom the 

 peerage of Massereene has descended ; Captain Norton, who built 

 Castle Robin ; Captain Egerton, Captain -Langford, Sir Hercules 

 Langford, Lyndon, Savage, Piers, Dobbin, Dalway, Sendall, Rice, 

 Harper, Wills, Captain Moyses Hill (ancestor of the Marquis of 

 Downshire), Floyd, Wood, Rice ap Hughe, John Thomas Hibbotts, 

 Sir James Hamilton, Sir Faithful Fortescue, Sir Hugh Montgomerie- 

 There are representatives of many of these families in these coun- 

 ties at this day. The most of them obtained large grants of land 

 at the plantation of Ulster in 1609, and planted them with English, 

 Scotch, and Welsh settlers. Sir Foulke Conway obtained what is 

 now known as the Hertford estate, which he seemed to have 

 planted in the main with Englishmen ; the names existing on the 

 best part of that estate, in Ballinderry and neighbourhood, at the 

 beginning of this century, were mostly English — Higginson, Walk- 

 ington, Davis, Sefton, Hunter, Cinnamond, Casmont, Patterson, 

 Harrison, Hasty, Strane, White, Oakman, Gregg, Garrett, Young- 

 husband, Hall, Waring, Whittle, Clement, Hull, Watson, Chapman, 

 &c. In the same neighbourhood is Brookhill, called after Sir 

 Francis Brook, a colonel in Elizabeth's army. About Lambeg 

 were some Welsh names — Aprichard, Gwilliams, and also many 

 English — Gresham, Hastings, Waring, Close, Blizard, Wheeler, 

 Braithwait, Barnsley, Carleton, Bennett, Waters, Shillington, Ha- 

 mond, Moore, Richardson, Hopes, Lamb, Peel, Bicket, Carter, 

 &c. The bulk of the settlers in the Ards and north-west part of 

 Antrim were Scotch. In the Patent Rolls there are lists of many 

 such who became naturalized, including the names of Edmundson, 

 Haldan, Boswell, Dunlop, Macnaghten, Kennedy, Shaw, Blair, 

 Benthill, Logan, Dick, Paton, Lynne, Lindsay, Kyle, Moncrief, 

 Conyngham, M'Neill, Young, Colville, Love, Gibson, Somervell, 

 Hall, Rankin, Thompson, Crighton, Smith, Habucke,- Cooper, 

 &c. There are also enrolments in the same documents of the 



