At the same time he sent a long letter to the Queen, complaining of the treatment he had received, and defending his pretensions.

The letter is characteristic of the man and of the times.
He said: 'The deputy has much ill-used me, your Majesty; and now that I am going over to see you, I hope you will consider that I am but rude and uncivil, and do not know my duty to your Highness, nor yet your Majesty's laws, but am one brought up in wildness, far from all civility.

Yet have I a good will to the commonwealth of my country; and please your Majesty to send over two commissioners that you can trust, that will take no bribes, nor otherwise be imposed on, to observe what I have done to improve the country, and hear what my accusers have to say; and then let them go into the Pale, and hear what the people say of your soldiers, with their horses, and their dogs, and their concubines.

Within this year and a half, three hundred farmers are come from the English Pale to live in my country, where they can be safe.
'Please your Majesty, your Majesty's money here is not so good as your money in England, and will not pass current there.

Please your Majesty to send me three thousand pounds in English money to pay my expenses in going over to you, and when I come back I will pay your deputy three thousand pounds Irish, such as you are pleased to have current here.