At two o'clock on the third day Wentworth received the sword in the Council-chamber. The ceremony had generally been performed in Christchurch, but some said the Archbishop of Dublin would not let the Primate deliver his prepared sermon, or perhaps the Lord Deputy wished to avoid publicity. After a short discussion with some of the Council 'in his ear whispering like,' he decided to go in procession through the rooms of the Castle instead of slipping in quietly by the gallery, as he originally proposed. When the Council were seated the Lord Deputy remained standing, while Wandesford, as Master of the Rolls, read the commission; then Lord Mountnorris, as acting secretary (having it in reversion after Sir Dudley Norton, who may well be 'jubilayed') read the King's letter ordering the Lords Justices to deliver the sword, and explaining the reasons for the new governor's late arrival. When he had been sworn, Lord Chancellor Loftus spoke of the state in which he and his colleague left the government. No fresh debt, he said, had been contracted during their time of office, everything was quiet, and they were ready to advise their successor as to many desirable reforms. 'I for my part,' says Cork in his diary, 'did most willingly surrender the sword, the rather in regard the kingdom was yielded up in general peace and plenty.' Wentworth then took the chair, and with the sword in his hand made 'a very good speech.' He said he would be no upholder of factions, but would most esteem those who did most for the King's service. He had heard that there was some discontent about two men having been drafted from each company in order to raise a troop for himself. He did not want one, he said, but the creation of a permanent guard for the viceroy had caused his delay in England. The men should be restored at the first vacancy, and he thought it very unfit that a departing Deputy should retain his company. 'Herein he touched the Lord of Falkland, who retained his.' Grandison had done the same, with continuous leave of absence. On the return journey the sword was carried by the Earl of Castlehaven, a knight having been thought good enough to bear it before the Lords Justices, who now brought up the rear. When he came before the cloth of estate, in the presence chamber, Wentworth halted and made 'two humble courtesies to the King's and Queen's picture which hang on each side, and fixing his eyes with much seriousness showed a kind of devotion.' He knighted his brother George, his cousin Danby, who was the husband of Wandesford's daughter, and a very young Mr. Remington, 'not of age, who hopes to save his wardship thereby, his father being very old and sickly.' On reaching the privy chamber, where Lady Wentworth stood with Lady Tyrconnel and others, he introduced the late Lords Justices to his wife, presenting her to be saluted with a kiss from each of them ... who until that instant had no title or place given her here but that of Mistress Rhodes.'[182]