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 5 j 8 REIGN OF ELIZABE TH. [CH. 63. till Sir Henry Sidney, the most successful Deputy Ireland had ever had, except Bellingham, could be pre- vailed on to take his place. Fresh companies were sent over with money and stores ; and though the plans of confiscation and settlement were suspended, she pre- pared to make one more effort to bring the chiefs upon their knees. Munster, Connaught, and Ulster were in open revolt. To carry on the war in the three provinces at once was thought impossible. Tirlogh Lenogh and Sir Phelim O'Neil (Sir Brian MacPhelim, as he was called in Ire- land) were the most immediately dangerous ; and she directed the Dublin authorities to make a temporary compromise with the leaders in the south and west. The Earl of Desmond had promised, when he was in England, to further the Reformed Church in Cork and Kerry, to bring the bishops to obedience, complete the suppression of the monasteries, and introduce the An- glican Prayer-book. 1 He considered himself released from his engagements, if he had ever meant to keep them, by his second arbitrary arrest; and after his escape from Dublin, and his return to his own country, his first act was to replace the friars in the abbeys from which they had been expelled. No defiance could have been more open and deliberate. But Elizabeth or her council thought it prudent to conceal their resentment, and to leave this part of their policy for the present un- enforced. They meant to insist on the restoration of I. e, the Latin translation of it,