had "abdicated," when, deserted by Churchill, he fled to France, and William and Mary came to the throne at the express invitation of Parliament.

The Revolution completed the work of the Long Parliament by defining the limits of monarchy, and establishing constitutional government.

It was not--this Revolution, of 1688--the first time Parliament had sanctioned the deposing of the King of England and the appointment of his successor,[65] but it was the last.

Never again since the accession of William and Mary have the relations of the Crown and Parliament been strained to breaking point; never has the supremacy of Parliament been seriously threatened by the power of the throne.
The full effects of the Revolution of 1688 were seen in the course of the next fifty years.

Aristocracy, then mainly Whig, was triumphant, and under its rule, while large measures of civil and religious liberty were passed, the condition of the mass of labouring people was generally wretched in the extreme.