Ormonde, in his capacity of Lord Steward, was detained in London by the King's marriage, but reached Coventry on his way to Holyhead by the beginning of July. He was accompanied by many Irish peers, members of Parliament and claimants to land who were now hastening to defend their own interests in Ireland. In each county that he passed on the road to Chester the Lord Lieutenant came to meet him, and the local militia were paraded. He travelled by land to Holyhead, crossed in very rough weather and landed at Howth on July 27, the anniversary of the day on which he had surrendered Dublin to the parliamentary commissioners fifteen years before. He was at the Castle next day, and on the third received the House of Commons and had to endure a speech from Sir Audley Mervyn which was voted to express their sense and ordered to be printed. There were many other speeches and addresses, and on the 31st the Lord Lieutenant appeared in the House of Lords and gave the Royal assent to the Bill of Settlement.[26] [Sidenote: Bennet Secretary of State.] In October 1662, a few months after Ormonde's arrival in Ireland, the faithful old secretary Nicholas was dismissed and Sir Henry Bennet appointed in his stead. He was soon made Lord Arlington, and by that name is but too well known in history. The correspondence with the Lord Lieutenant passed through his hands, and he set himself from the first to make money out of Ireland. Most of the officials, in co-operation with Colonel Talbot, did their best to advance the interests of a courtier who was likely to be very powerful. He was, says Burnet, 'proud and insolent, a man of great vanity and lived at a vast expense without taking any care of paying the debts which he contracted to support that.' Clarendon says much more to the same effect and adds that he was never guilty of friendship to any man. He married Lady Ossory's sister, and was thus pretty closely connected with the Lord Lieutenant, but the relations between them were never very cordial. The nature of Bennet's interest in Ireland was soon made clear in the case of an ancient proprietor who had no court interest.[27] [Sidenote: The Clanmalier Estate.] [Sidenote: Foundation of Portarlington.]