Chichester was a good deal less sanguine than Davies both as to present and future. The English undertakers were with few exceptions not quite of the right kind. They were plain country gentlemen not apparently possessed of much money, and not very willing to lay out what they had. Many sought only for present advantage, and sold their claims to anyone who would buy. The Scotch were perhaps poorer, but they came with more followers and persuaded the natives to work for them by promising to get the King's leave for them to remain as tenants. The Irish were ready to do anything to avoid 'removing from the place of their birth and education, hoping at one time or other to find an opportunity to cut their landlords' throats; for they hate the Scottish deadly, and out of their malice towards them they begin to affect the English better than they have been accustomed.' In the meantime they provided concealed arms. Three years later it was found that the Scotch were very much inclined to marry Irish girls, for which reproof and punishment were prescribed by the King lest the whole settlement should degenerate into an Irish country. The best chance, Chichester thought, was to induce as many old tried officers as possible to settle upon the land. The natives had learned to obey them, and they knew what could and what could not be done. There was, however, a tendency in high quarters to provide for young Scotch gentlemen, and to neglect 'ancienter captains and of far better worth and desert' who knew the country well. Sir Oliver Lambert was sent over to represent the case of the veterans, not as the best orator but because he had 'long travelled and bled in the business when it was at the worst, and had seen many alterations since he first came into the land.'[71] [Sidenote: Mission of Carew, 1611.] James was puzzled by conflicting accounts, and reminded Chichester that he had followed his guidance more closely than any king had ever followed any governor. In order that he might have someone thoroughly informed to apply to he sent over a special commissioner, who was to view the plantation as far as it had got and advise generally as to how the Irish Government might be made financially self-supporting. The person chosen was the famous ex-president of Munster, now Lord Carew, who as Vice-Chamberlain of the Queen's household would always be at hand. Special letters were at the same time sent to Clanricarde and Thomond, who were personal friends of Carew's. The King seems to have been struck by Chichester's often reiterated opinion that sufficient provision had not been made for the natives in the escheated counties, and he directed Chichester and Carew to find out 'how his Majesty may without breach of justice make use of the notorious omissions and forfeitures made by the undertakers of Munster, for supply of some such portion of land as may be necessary for transplanting the natives of Ulster.'[72] [Sidenote: His prophecy,]