A few days before the Lord Deputy's arrival Essex, accompanied by Lord Cromwell, landed some miles from Dublin, and was met by the Lords Justices and Lord Primate with all persons of quality about town. The streets were so crowded with spectators that the coaches could hardly pass, and an old Irish woman called out 'Blessed be the time that I live to see a son of thy father there.' When Wentworth appeared on July 23 the water was very rough, and he was probably not inclined to eat the dinner which Lord Howth had prepared for him. At all events he declined to land near the head, and came ashore close to Dublin, nearly opposite to where the Custom House now stands. He was unexpected, and not a gun was fired, but Lord Justice Cork was quickly on the spot with his coach, and the news spread fast. The Lord Deputy, with Lord Castlehaven, Sir John Borlase, Sir Francis Cook, and others started to walk, but Cork invited them all into his coach, and by the time they reached the Castle there was such a crowd that the drawbridge had to be raised behind them. Afterwards, Cork records in his diary, 'I having the precedency, the Lord Deputy brought me to my coach.' Next day was given to receiving visits, which were for the most part scrupulously returned, that of Essex the first, precedency as an Earl being granted him until the viceroy was sworn. Essex soon departed to his estate at Carrickmacross, but was back in London early in the following year, whence he wrote a letter of four lines thanking the Lord Deputy for his 'noble usage.' Wentworth replied very civilly in a letter of eight lines, but there appears to have been nothing like intimacy between the two. 'I visited both the Justices,' Wentworth wrote, 'at their own houses, which, albeit not formerly done by other Deputies, yet I conceived it was a duty I owed, being then but a private person, as also to show an example to others what would always become them to the supreme governor.'[181] [Sidenote: Wentworth receives the sword, July 25, 1633.] [Sidenote: The Lord Chancellor's speech.] [Sidenote: Wentworth's speech.] [Sidenote: Wentworth makes obeisance to the King's picture.]