Towards the close of 1610 it became evident that the settlement of Ulster could not be completed for some time. It was scarcely, Chichester said, 'a work for private men who expect a present profit, or to be performed without blows or opposition.' Jesuits and friars were busy in exciting the people and inducing them to expect Tyrone's return, and they always found means to communicate with the fugitives abroad. A still greater cause for discontent was the way in which the land had been divided. Chichester 'conceived that one-half of each county would have been left assigned to natives; but now they have but one barony in a county and in some counties less.' He had protested against this all along, but with little effect. The Irish, Davies said, objected to be small freeholders, as they would be obliged to serve on juries and spend double the value of their land at sessions and assizes. They all preferred to be under a master, and they did not much care what master provided he were on the spot with will and power to protect them. They would live contentedly enough as tenants under any one, even a Protestant bishop, 'as young pheasants do under the wings of a home-hen though she be not their natural mother.' But when the time came the natives found that half a loaf was better than no bread, and accepted the lands allotted to them. The Londoners, having more capital and better support than the other undertakers, had got to work the quickest, and the Attorney-General was so struck by the preparations at Coleraine, that he was reminded of 'Dido's colony building of Carthage,' and quoted Virgil's description of the scene. Four months later he reported that undertakers were coming over by every passage, 'so that by the end of summer the wilderness of Ulster will have a more civil form.' Barnaby Rich, who had written many books about the country, was even more optimistic. Being asked sixteen times in one week what he thought of the new plantation, he answered that Ireland was now as safe as Cheapside: 'the rebels shall never more stand out hereafter, as they have done in times past.'[70] [Sidenote: English and Scots compared.]