SECT. 8.
[Sect. 8] Coming now to the Year 1690. We begin with the Affairs of Brittain. The first thing the Parliament did, was making of an Act, that if any King or Queen of England should Embrace the Roman Catholick▪ Religion, or Marry with a Roman Catholick, the Subjects should be ab∣solved from their Oath of ••••llegiance. Next, They annull'd the pretended Parliament in Irelan; And ordained, that all who should take up Armes against the King, after the 24th of P••bru••••, should be guilty of High Treason. And on the 6th, of February, they were dissolved, and a new Parliament ordered to meet on the 30th, of March, who meeting ac∣cordingly, The King declared to them his design of going for Ireland, and desired them to concert and settle all Affairs relating thereto, with that ex∣pedition as a matter of that importance required, and told them farther, that he intended to leave the Government in the Queens hands, during his absence.
On this Speech the Parliament went roundly to Work; The first Act passed, was one of oblivion, as the King had desired: The next was of putting the Government in the hands of the Queen, during the Kings Absence in Ireland, or any where else; And dispatched all other Affairs with that celerity, as the King (having prorogued them to the 17. of June) hastened to Ireland, where he arrived safe on the 14th, of that Month, at Belfast.