The financial question was settled at last, Lord Burgh receiving 1,200_l._ for immediate needs. He carried 24,000_l._ to Ireland with him, and was allowed to retain the governorship of Brill. His health was bad, but he did not let this delay him. 'I am,' he told Cecil, 'cut all over my legs with the lancet, and have abidden loathsome worms to suck my flesh.' He could not wish even his enemies to feel such anguish. But he managed to take leave of the Queen in spite of his swollen legs, and a week after the leeching, he travelled as far as St. Albans, accompanied by Raleigh, Southampton, and other distinguished men. On the morning of his departure, he went to see Essex at Barnes, and the Earl brought him back to London in his coach. At Stony Stratford he opened his instructions, and found, to his great chagrin, that one article had been added to those which he had already seen. The Queen had been dishonoured, she said, by the facility with which knighthood had been bestowed, and he was forbidden to give it 'to any but such as shall be, both of blood and livelihood, sufficient to maintain that calling, except at some notable day of service to bestow it for reward upon some such as in the field have extraordinarily deserved it.' He was thoroughly alive to the difficulties awaiting him in Ireland--difficulties which had been aggravated by the delay in despatching him, and now he was deprived of the means of rewarding his friends, and made to seem less trustworthy than his predecessors. He was in Dublin on the twelfth day after leaving London, and found nothing there to his liking. Almost all supplies were wanting, the number of effective soldiers was much below what it should have been, and the horses were too weak for active service.[268] [Sidenote: Burgh and Norris.] [Sidenote: General misery.]