 Serious political trouble arose in the following year, when there was renewed opposition by the Anglo-Irish gentry to the cess.Skurlock was chosen, with Henry Burnell and Richard Netterville, to travel to London to petition the Queen for its abolition, on account of the ruinous cost it imposed on the gentry of the Pale.The Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, argued that the petition was a defiance of the Royal Prerogative.