[149] Petition of the inhabitants of Cork in Graves's _Presentments_; Hooker's _Life of Sir P. Carew_; Campion; Thomas Wadding to Sir George Carew, March 12, 1603, in _Carew_. In Maclean's edition of Hooker's _Life_ is a list of the Munster lands claimed by Carew. It comprises the greater part of Cork and Kerry, and a part of Waterford. It was computed that the actual holders of these lands in the sixteenth century could bring 3,000 men into the field. The Carews claim descent from Nesta's son William, who was brother to Maurice Fitzgerald, half-brother to FitzStephen, and uncle to Giraldus Cambrensis. Wadding was a lawyer, who had thoroughly studied the whole matter. [150] _Life_, as above; Hooker to Carew, May 26, 1568. [151] Hooker's _Life of Sir P. Carew_; Carew to Cecil, Dec. 26, 1568. [152] Morrin's _Patent Rolls_, Dec. 7, 1568. See the Carew pedigree printed by Macleane. [153] James Fitzmaurice to the Lords Justices, July 27; Lord Fitzmaurice to same, Aug. 1; Sir Maurice Fitzgerald to same, July 29; Fitzwilliam to Cecil, Sept. 5. [154] MacBrien Arra to the Lords Justices, Sept. 9, 1568. He calls Butler's camp followers 'slaves.' More Ny Carroll to her husband MacBrien Arra, Nov. 12. [155] Lords Justices to the Queen, Oct. 8, with the enclosures. CHAPTER XXVI. FROM 1568 TO 1570. [Sidenote: Sidney's plans for Ulster.] Sidney lost no time in trying to realise his idea of bridling the North with forts and bridges. He surveyed Clandeboye and Ards, and declared them the shire of Carrickfergus--an arrangement afterwards departed from. He met Tirlogh Luineach at the Bann, and thought him inclined to obey. The various castles already garrisoned he found in good order, the people readily selling the soldiers a fat cow for 6_s._ 8_d._ and twenty-four eggs for 1_d._ In Carrickfergus a good market was kept twice a week, to which commodities were brought from the Pale, from Scotland and Man, and even from France. Three 40-ton cargoes of claret were sold at nine cowskins a hogshead. 'The Archbishop of Armagh and the Bishop of Meath, with divers noblemen and gentlemen as well of England as the English Pale, lawyers, merchants, and others came from Dublin to Carrickfergus, only for visitation sake, the Bishops riding in their rochets, and the rest unarmed.' A treaty was made with Sir Brian MacPhelim to build a proper carriage bridge over the Laggan at Belfast, to cut passes through the woods, to supply fuel for making bricks, and to protect men building or repairing ships in the Lough. On his road to Dublin most of the chiefs and gentlemen came to pay their respects to the Lord Deputy.[156] [Sidenote: The Scots.]