The Lord Deputy and Council were generally charged to look after all the rights of the Crown in Munster, but were not to infringe the liberty of the subject by quartering unnecessary men on the country, the Lord Deputy and Council being the judges of what were cases of necessity.[187] [Sidenote: Sidney goes to England. Sir W. Fitzwilliam is Lord Justice.] How much Sidney hated the Irish service may be learned from his letters, almost every one of which contains a prayer for recall. Yet Fitzwilliam, the second string to the English bow in Ireland, hinted that he was unwilling to retire. Fitzwilliam always declared himself loth to accept the high but thankless office, but both these able men may have been more attached to power than they would confess to themselves or to their friends. The establishment of presidencies had been Sidney's great panacea, and he waited only till Munster as well as Connaught was provided for. In the meantime he made arrangements for Northern affairs, which under the presidency system were to be peculiarly the care of the Lord Deputy. Tirlogh Luineach entered into a treaty of peace with all the Queen's subjects to be inviolably observed until the Queen's further pleasure should be known. Tirlogh Luineach claimed Maguire and MacMahon as his 'urraghs'; but this the Lord Deputy refused, agreeing, however, to give them the temporary benefit of the peace. Tirlogh Luineach's wife was a party to this treaty, who informed Morton that she was the real author of it, and begged him to support her husband's messenger at the English Court. The Scots were thus held in check for the time, and Sidney further secured the Pale by an agreement with the O'Farrells, whereby they covenanted to surrender all their lands and receive them back from the Queen, to pay a quit rent, to attend hostings, and to have their whole district treated as shire ground, paying the subsidy of 13_s._ 4_d._ for each plough land. O'Farrell Bane, the principal chief, is described as of that 'place called Pallas in the county of Longford,' where Oliver Goldsmith was born. Arrangements for the surrender of their lands and for taking them back by grant were also made with MacBrien Arra in Tipperary, and with the Kavanaghs; and Sidney, having installed Perrott in his Presidency, and thus provided both a scourge for the rebels and a counterpoise for Ormonde, sailed for England, and left the government in the hands of Sir William Fitzwilliam.[188] [Sidenote: Fitton cannot govern Connaught.]