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 end back all his foreign Forces as oon as this was done.

When the News of his Landing was pread through England, he was welcomed by the univeral Acclamations of the People. He had the Hands, the Hearts, and the Prayers of all honet Men in the Nation: Every one thought the long wihed for time of their Deliverance was come. King James was deerted by his own Family, his Court, and his Army. The Ground he tood upon mouldred under him; o that he ent his Queen and Foundling to France before him, and himelf followed oon after. When the Prince came to London, he dibanded mot of thoe Regiment that were raied from the time he landed; and King James's Army that were dibanded by Feverham, were ordered to repair all again to their Colours: Which was thought by ome a fale tep, believing it would have been more our Interet to have kept thoe Regiments which came in upon the Principle on which this Revolution is founded, that Forces that were raied in violation of the Laws, and to upport a tyrannical Government: Beides, the mierable Condition of Ireland required our peedy Aitance, and thee Men might have been truted to do that work.

Within a few days after he came to Town, he ummoned the Lords, and not long after the Members of the three lat Parliaments of King Charles the Second, and was addreed to by both Houes to take upon him the Adminitration of the Government, to take into his particular care the then preent Condition of Ireland, and to iue forth Circulatory Letters for the chooing a Convention of Etates. All this time Ireland lay bleeding, and Tyrconnel was raiing an Army, diarming the Protestants, and dipoeing them of all the Places they held in Lanter, Munter and Connaught, which occaioned frequent Applications here for Relief, though it was to end them but one or two Regiments; and it that could not be done, to end them Arms and Commiion, which in all probability would have made the Reduction of that Kingdom very eay. Yet though the Prince's and King James's Army were both in England, no relief was ent, by which means the Irih got poeion of the whole Kingdom, but Londonderry and Innikilling, the former