James Downhame
Although many incumbents in other parts of Ulster had been ejected from their livings, the clergy of Inishowen remained relatively safe from purges by extreme Puritans until around 1657.[8] The Civil Survey of 1654-56 recorded that he held lands belonging to the Bishopric of Derry in the Inishowen parishes of Clonmany and Clonca, and that he claimed to have a 40-years lease of the See's townlands in Clondermot granted by his father.He also held 750 acres of Church land at Clonleigh in Lifford as heir to his recently deceased brother William.In 1661 the Irish House of Lords granted his petition for possession of the glebes which endowed the Tynan and Derrynoose livings and which had been occupied by others during the Commonwealth period.[12] In October 1668, at the request of the Archbishop of Armagh, he was appointed to the valuable living of Clonfeacle by Trinity College, Dublin, and thereupon resigned as rector of Derrynoose.