Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regnis & reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, secundo. On the fourteenth day of April, Anno Dom. 1690. In the second year of their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent.
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"Anno regni Gulielmi et Mariæ, regnis & reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, secundo. On the fourteenth day of April, Anno Dom. 1690. In the second year of their Majesties reign, this act passed the royal assent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B02950.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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Anno Secundo GVLIELMI & MARIAE, An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during His Majesties Absence.
WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the first Year of Their Majesties Reign, Intituled, An Act Declaring the Rights and Liber∣ties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of the Crown, It is amongst other things Enacted, Establ••sh∣ed and Declared, That the Crown and Regal Govern∣ment of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, shall be and continue to Their said Maj••sties, and the Survivor of them during Their Lives, and the Life of the Survivor of them, and that the Entire, Perfect and Full Exercise of the Regal Power and Government, be only in, and Executed by His Majesty, in the Names of both Their Majesties, du∣ring Their joint Lives;
And whereas the King's most Excellent Majesty hath Resolved to make a Royal Voyage, and go in Person in∣to Ireland, for the Speedy and Effectual Reducing of that Kingdom to its due Obedience to Their Majesties, and hath likewise Declared His Pleasure, to have the Admi∣nistration of the Government in the Hands of the Queens most Excellent Majesty, during His absence out of this King∣dom.
Be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled, and by the Authority of the same, that whensoever, and as often as it shall happen that His said Majesty shall be absent out of this Realm of England, It shall and may be Lawful for the Queens Ma∣jesty to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Go∣vernment of the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales
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and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Plantations and Territories thereunto belonging, in the Names of both their Majesties for such time only, during Their joint Lives, as His said Majesty shall be Absent, or continue out of this Realm of England; any thing in the said Act to the con∣trary notwithstanding.
Provided always, That nothing in this Act shall be taken or construed to Exclud or Debar His Majesty during such His Absence out of this Realm, from the Exercise or Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government within this Realm, the Kingdom of Ireland or any other Their Majesties Dominions whatsover; But that all and every such Act and Acts shall be as good and effectual, as if His Majesty was within this Realm, and shall not be Contradicted or Controlled but by His Majesty only; And neither the Passing of this Act nor His Maj∣esties Royal Voyage or Absence out of this Realm, shall be any way taken or construed to Dissolve this present Parlia∣ment, or Avoid or Determine any Commission or Commissions, which have been or shall be Granted by His or their Ma∣jesties; Nor to Avoid any other Act or Acts of Government, Executed by His Majesty.
Provided always, That as often as His Majestys, shall return into this Kingdom of England, the sole Administer∣ation of the Regal Power and Government thereof, and all the dominions, Territories and Plantations thereunto belonging or annexed, shall be in His Majesty only, as if this Act had never been made.
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