power to 'transplant' them to any such place in Ireland as should be 'judged most consistent with public safety,' where they were to have land equivalent to what they would have enjoyed had they not been so removed.[258] [Sidenote: Lambert named for Deputy,] [Sidenote: but the appointment is not made.] [Sidenote: Fleetwood at head of Irish Government, July 1652.] At the end of January 1652, a little more than two months after Ireton's death, Lambert was named by Parliament as Deputy to Cromwell, who was still Lord Lieutenant; and he made preparations for filling the place brilliantly. Mrs. Hutchinson says he laid out five thousand pounds on his outfit, and gave himself airs of superiority, 'looking upon all the Parliament men who had conferred this honour on him as underlings, and scarcely worth the great man's nod.' Weaver's influence was cast against him, and before Cromwell's commission had actually expired the House resolved to abolish the Lord Lieutenancy and to appoint no Deputy. Lambert was told he might command the army as Ludlow had been doing, sharing the civil power with the other commissioners; but he refused this offer, and Cromwell, who became Captain-General, appointed Fleetwood. Ludlow says this was a deep-laid plot on the part of Cromwell, who was jealous of his steadfast republicanism, and that he was thus able to secure a useful servant in his son-in-law, and at the same time to set such a dangerous rival as Lambert against the Parliament. On the other hand there is evidence that Cromwell thought him badly treated, and he requested that 2000_l._ of arrears due to himself as Lord Lieutenant might be paid to Lambert. Ludlow, Corbet, and Jones remained in Ireland as Fleetwood's colleagues, but Weaver, though reappointed, became obnoxious to the military party, and never returned thither. Fresh instructions were issued as soon as the Act of Settlement had passed, and Fleetwood landed at Waterford in September 1652. The Commissioners were ordered to publish and circulate the Act, and to put it in force in Ireland, as well as all ordinances affecting the estates of delinquents and Papists and of the bishops and chapters. They were to raise a revenue not exceeding 40,000_l._ a month upon lands and goods in Ireland, and to watch the financial interests of the State in every way, and they were given power 'to send into England or such other places as you shall think fit, any persons whose residence in those parts from which they are so to be removed, you shall judge dangerous to this Commonwealth.'[259] [Sidenote: Necessity for further legislation.] [Sidenote: The Long Parliament expelled, April 20, 1653.]