Finance and the army were brought under Parliamentary control by the simple expedient of making its annual summons essential.
The right of petition was re-affirmed; and the independence of the judges and ministerial responsibility were secured by the same act which forever excluded the legitimate heirs from their royal inheritance.

It is difficult not to be amazed at the almost casual fashion in which so striking a revolution was effected.

Not, indeed, that the solution worked easily at the outset.

William remained to the end a foreigner, who could not understand the inwardness of English politics.

It was the necessities of foreign policy which drove him to admit the immense possibilities of the party-system as also to accept his own best safeguard in the foundation of the Bank of England.