then surrendered on fair terms, and Broghill went back to the siege of Clonmel.[176] [Sidenote: Cromwell leaves Ireland, May 26.] [Sidenote: His plans of reform.] Cromwell quitted Ireland on May 26, leaving Ireton as his deputy. His last extant letter before going was to Hewson, in favour of young Lord Moore, son of the brave soldier who was killed at Portlester, and grandson of Lord Chancellor Loftus. Moore had fought against Cromwell, who nevertheless ordered that he should be 'fairly and civilly treated, and that no incivility or abuse be offered unto him by any of the soldiery, either by restraining his liberty or otherwise; it being a thing which I altogether disprove and dislike that the soldiers should intermeddle in civil affairs farther than they are lawfully called upon.' Necessity afterwards devised the major-generals, but it was to civil justice, to a Matthew Hale rather than a Desborough, that Cromwell looked for real improvement. It was a crime, he said, 'to hang a man for six and eightpence, and I know not what--to hang for a trifle and commit murder.' In Ireland particularly much might be done for the poor people by the cheap and impartial administration of justice. They had suffered more by the oppression of the great than any 'in that which we call Christendom. And indeed they are accounted the bribingest people that are, they having been inured thereto.' And he rightly considered that the best guarantee for purity was to pay good fixed salaries to the judges and to get rid of the fees and perquisites which had been a 'colour to covetous practices.'[177] [Sidenote: Inchiquin charged with treachery] [Sidenote: Submission of Protestant Royalists.] [Sidenote: Easy terms given.] [Sidenote: Safe conducts rejected by Ormonde and Inchiquin.]