The new Chancellor had heard the common report that there were to be three Roman Catholic judges, but he was told nothing officially, and the appointments were almost ostentatiously made without consulting him or the Lord Lieutenant. The vacancy in the King's Bench was filled by Thomas Nugent, a son of the late Earl of Westmeath, who boasted about his promotion, and had his robes made in Dublin long before. Clarendon says he was 'a man of birth indeed, but no lawyer, and so will do no harm upon the account of his learning.' He and Lyndon, the other puisne judge, squabbled 'like two women' about precedence. Viceroy and Chancellor agreed that Nugent was foolish and troublesome. The new judge of the Common Pleas was Denis Daly, 'one of the best lawyers of that sort,' says Clarendon, 'but of old Irish race, and, therefore, ought not to be a judge'; otherwise there was nothing against him except that he was 'very bigoted and national.' He had been bred a lawyer's clerk, and made money, which he invested in land under Settlement titles. The appointment to the Exchequer was in some ways the most important of the three Courts, because it was the only one from which no writ of error lay in England. Charles Ingleby, an English Roman Catholic, having refused to go to Ireland, the place was given to Stephen Rice, whose abilities as a lawyer were not disputed. Clarendon was not even formally consulted, though his patent gave him the appointment of all judges and officers of the Exchequer except the Chief Baron. Nugent, Daly, and Rice were dispensed from taking the oath of supremacy, which had been invariably required ever since the second year of Elizabeth.[147] [Sidenote: A new Privy Council.] [Sidenote: Tyrconnel made commander-in-chief.]