While at Doncaster, after the treaty of Berwick, the King saw a messenger from Wentworth, who gave him his latest ideas on the Loftus case. Charles reached London on August 2 1639, and within three weeks it was known that the Lord Deputy would be sent for and perhaps made Lord Treasurer. He arrived at his own house in Covent Garden on September 21, and became virtually chief minister until the meeting of the Long Parliament, though his advice was not always taken. Juxon remained in charge of an empty Treasury. Lord Dillon and Wandesford had been left in Ireland as Lords Justices, but Radcliffe was more trusted than anyone. Wentworth did not neglect the affairs of Ireland, but he had no time to write at length, though he was able to bring the Loftus affair to the conclusion he desired. He was particularly anxious that Lady Carlisle's interests in Ireland should not be neglected, and no doubt he often saw her. While devoting himself heart and soul to the King's affairs, he was under no illusion as to their evil condition. Writing from St. Albans on the morning of the day when he reached London, 'I find,' he told Radcliffe, 'a great expectation is drawn upon me, for which I am most sorry; and the nearer I come to it the more my heart fails me; nor can I promise unto myself any good by this journey.'[242] [Sidenote: Wentworth advises a Parliament.] [Sidenote: He is made Lord Lieutenant and Earl of Strafford] On November 19, in the King's presence, the Privy Council gave judgment for Wentworth against the Irish Chancellor. Very soon afterwards it was decided on his recommendation that a Parliament should be held both in England and Ireland, and he fancied that some popularity had come to him in consequence. So much did Charles lean on him, that his presence at the opening of both Parliaments was considered necessary. He tried to maintain Sir John Coke in office, but indeed the Secretary was superannuated, and he failed to obtain the succession for Leicester, the appointment being given to Vane, whom he hated and despised. But he was made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a title which had not been conferred since Devonshire's time, with power to appoint a deputy, and so to direct affairs on both sides of St. George's Channel; and he received the earldom which had been twice refused. He had the bad taste to take a second title from Vane's house at Raby, and the latter bitterly resented what was probably an intentional insult on Strafford's part; 'and I believe,' says Clarendon, 'it was the loss of his head.'[243] [Sidenote: Strafford reconciled to the Queen.] [Sidenote: An Irish army to subdue Scotland.] [Sidenote: An Irish Parliament, March, 1640.]