William and Mary advanced a few steps.

Halifax on the right, and Powle on the left, stood forth; and Halifax spoke.

The Convention, he said, had agreed to a resolution which he prayed Their Highnesses to hear.

They signified their assent; and the clerk of the House of Lords read, in a loud voice, the Declaration of Right.

When he had concluded, Halifax, in the name of all the Estates of the Realm, requested the Prince and Princess to accept the crown.
William, in his own name and in that of his wife, answered that the crown was, in their estimation, the more valuable because it was presented to them as a token of the confidence of the nation.