A single O, an apostate from the faith of his fathers, and three Macs, evidently emigrants from Scotland, and probably Presbyterians, had seats in the assembly.
The Parliament, thus composed, had then less than the powers of the Assembly of Jamaica or of the Assembly of Virginia.

Not merely was the Legislature which sate at Dublin subject to the absolute control of the Legislature which sate at Westminster: but a law passed in the fifteenth century, during the administration of the Lord Deputy Poynings, and called by his name, had provided that no bill which had not been considered and approved by the Privy Council of England should be brought into either House in Ireland, and that every bill so considered and approved should be either passed without amendment or rejected.
[403] The session opened with a solemn recognition of the paramount authority of the mother country.

The Commons ordered their clerk to read to them the English Act which required them to take the Oath of Supremacy and to subscribe the Declaration against Transubstantiation.

Having heard the Act read, they immediately proceeded to obey it.

Addresses were then voted which expressed the warmest gratitude and attachment to the King.
Two members, who had been untrue to the Protestant and English interest during the troubles, were expelled.