thought that the Glynnes might be handed over to Sorley Boy, no better claimant appearing, but that the Route ought to be given back to the MacQuillins, having been lost only because their late chief was a 'dissolute and loose fellow, feeble both of wit and force.' Lady Agnes O'Neill, a true Campbell, met Sidney and asked for a grant of the Glynnes for her son by James MacDonnell, offering to defend it against Sorley Boy, and to pay a higher rent to the Crown; but this did not recommend itself to the Lord Deputy, wise as he thought the lady, and much as he admired her manners and address.[308] [Sidenote: Hopeless condition of Ulster. Sidney's advice.] The northern part of Armagh under the Baron of Dungannon Sidney found all waste, and the cathedral in ruins. The southern part had been granted by the Queen to the brothers Chatterton, who were totally unable to manage the country, and were rapidly losing all. 'They wrestle and work,' said Sidney, 'and go to the worse, ... tall and honest gentlemen, who have lost in that enterprise all that ever they had, and all that anybody else would trust them with, and their blood and limbs too.' The O'Hanlons would not come to Sidney on protection, lest they should be cajoled into acknowledging the Chattertons' title. Lecale in Down, which was Kildare's property, had been partially, but only partially, peopled by the exertions of Essex. Ards was a little better, less owing to Sir Thomas Smith than to the natural tendencies of its old English inhabitants, whose chief, Edmond Savage, was received into protection. Kinelarty, or MacCartan's country, was 'all desolate and waste, full of thieves, outlaws, and unreclaimed people. None of the old owners dared occupy the land, because it hath pleased her Majesty to bestow the same upon Captain Nicholas Maltby, tied, nevertheless, to such observation of covenant and condition as Chatterton had his.' Maltby deserved a much better provision, but could do no good with this one either to himself or to anyone else. He could only 'make the country altogether abandoned of inhabitants.' It was absolutely necessary for the Queen's service that both Chatterton's and Maltby's grants should be revoked. Dufferin, long the property of the White family, was 'all waste and desolate, used as they of Clandeboye list.' Neill MacBrian Ertagh, whom Essex had acknowledged as captain, made some show of opposition at the ford of Belfast. 'We passed over,' said Sidney, 'without loss of man or horse, yet, by reason of the tide's extraordinary return, our horses swam, and the footmen in the passage waded very deep.... Clandeboye I found utterly disinhabited. The captain refused to have conference with me, and answered, "That Con MacNeill Oge was captain, and not he" (who being appointed to be delivered to the Marshal, by negligence of his keepers, made an escape in his coming from Dublin, where before he remained prisoner).' It cannot be said that the slaughter of Sir Brian MacPhelim