During eleven years nothing more was heard of the claims of the House of Brunswick.
The Bill of Rights contained some provisions which deserve special mention.

The Convention had resolved that it was contrary to the interest of the kingdom to be governed by a Papist, but had prescribed no test which could ascertain whether a prince was or was not a Papist.
The defect was now supplied.

It was enacted that every English sovereign should, in full Parliament, and at the coronation, repeat and subscribe the Declaration against Transubstantiation.
It was also enacted that no person who should marry a Papist should be capable of reigning in England, and that, if the Sovereign should marry a Papist, the subject should be absolved from allegiance.

Burnet boasts that this part of the Bill of Rights was his work.

He had little reason to boast: for a more wretched specimen of legislative workmanship will not easily be found.