The Irish Council seem to have expected little less than a millennium now that the arch-disturber was removed. The Ulster chiefs hurried to make their submissions, and Tirlogh Luineach, who had immediately assumed the name of O'Neill, thought it wise to apologise for so doing. Tirlogh was willing to pay for his own pardon as many kine as might be awarded by Sidney and Kildare, to keep the peace for the future, and to entertain no Scots without special licence. Sir Brian MacPhelim, chief of Clandeboye, and the most important O'Neill after Tirlogh, had served against Shane and received Elizabeth's thanks, as did also O'Donnell. The Council informed the Queen that all were now at her foot, and cried 'first for justice, and then for mercy.' But the old Treasurer Winchester had seen too much in his time to take a very sanguine view. The expense had been great, and could not be continued indefinitely. 'Irishmen,' he reminded Sidney, 'be full of policy, and wit, and mistrust, and will soon alter themselves from the best, as you yourself knoweth well.'[129] [Sidenote: Sidney and the Queen.] Elizabeth herself was not disposed to make light of Shane's overthrow and death. 'We do very well,' her Majesty wrote to Sidney, 'allow your painful service and good wisdom herein used, and are very glad, even for your own sake, that God has used you under us as the principal minister to procure so great and singular a benefit, as by the permission of God's favour is like hereby to ensue to that whole realm. And in this, our allowing and praising of you, we would have you well to note, that in reprehending you for other things not allowable to us, we were not moved thereto by any offence or misliking of yourself, but of the matters. For, indeed, we otherwise think so well of you for the faithfulness to us, and the painfulness in service, as yourself could prescribe. And thus much we have thought not impertinent to let you know how well we think of you for this service done in Ulster.' Sidney, it seems, had heard that the Queen intended to deprive him of the Presidency of Wales, and had written angrily to say that in that case he should resign the government of Ireland. Elizabeth had retorted very tartly that the two offices were always held at pleasure, and had never been in the same hands before, and that she should do as she pleased, 'and so also it is meet for you to think and conform yourself.' The same letter contained other sharp expressions, with an intimation that they would have been sharper yet if Sidney's 'travayles had not contrepassed.' Knowing the Deputy's fiery temper, Cecil thought it wise to apply a salve, and the same packet which brought the royal missive brought one from him. 'The Queen's Majesty,' he wrote, 'hath contrary to all our opinions and requests that be your friends, written more roundly to you than either I know you overmuch to deserve, or than I trust she conceiveth in her mind. I can