Determined not to let O'Neill rest, Sidney ordered a general hosting against the O'Reillys, O'Hanlons, and others of his partisans, which is only so far noteworthy in that Desmond and the White Knight co-operated with Sir Warham St. Leger, who had been acting as chief commissioner in Munster, and whom it was at this time intended to make Lord President. Butlers and Geraldines continued nevertheless to plunder one another, Sidney refusing to decide their cause without the help of English lawyers, and the Queen pressing him continually in Ormonde's interest. In the meantime he could see the state of Munster for himself. He found the Queen's County and Kilkenny in pretty good order, and very prosperous compared to what he had formerly seen there. Ormonde's brother Piers was arraigned for breaking into a gaol and releasing men charged with felony, and on confession was respited during the Queen's pleasure. Edward, another brother of the Earl, distinguished himself by apprehending certain outlaws who annoyed the Fitzpatricks, and who were sheltered in Tipperary. The Fitzpatricks were, however, in the habit of retaliating on Kilkenny. The O'Carrolls Sidney found quiescent, and their chief willing to pay rent to the Queen, and anxious for a peerage. Between the Fitzpatricks, the Desmonds, and the Butlers themselves, Tipperary was in evil case, suffering especially from 'the excessive train of horsemen and footmen led and kept there by the younger brethren of the Earl of Ormonde, who rather consumed than defended the goods of the poor country.' [Sidenote: The Palatinate of Tipperary.] Indeed, those who bore authority under the Earl showed neither justice, judgment, nor stoutness in the Deputy's opinion, and the townsmen of Clonmel, Cashel, and Fethard, sustained him in his dislike of the palatinate jurisdiction. Trade was so much interrupted by violence that the towns underwent the inconveniences of a perpetual siege. Lord Dunboyne with his brother and son were sent to Dublin Castle. 'If maintenance of proclaimed rebels,' said Patrick Sherlock, openly at Fethard in his lordship's presence and in that of the Deputy, 'murderers, and burners of corn and houses, are treason to the Queen's person, then I have to accuse him of treason.' Edward Butler was tried at Clonmel and acquitted, yet Sidney thought a good moral effect would result from the mere fact of bringing the Earl's brother into court. [Sidenote: Waterford.] The county of Waterford was also disturbed by the Power kerne and others, who had been used to live by coyne and livery. That exaction having been repressed by St. Leger and his colleagues, they betook themselves to undisguised rapine. Lord Power was also sent to the Castle, as the best means of inducing his followers to amend their lives. Sir Maurice Fitzgerald's county contrasted favourably both with Lord Power's and with the Desmond territory about Youghal, but the chief was somewhat too ready to take the law into his own hands.