Indeed, though no sovereign did so much to secure and to extend the power of the House of Commons, no sovereign loved the House of Commons less.

Nor is this strange; for he saw that House at the very worst.

He saw it when it had just acquired the power and had not yet acquired the gravity of a senate.

In his letters to Heinsius he perpetually complains of the endless talking, the factious squabbling, the inconstancy, the dilatoriness, of the body which his situation made it necessary for him to treat with deference.

His complaints were by no means unfounded; but he had not discovered either the cause or the cure of the evil.
The truth was that the change which the Revolution had made in the situation of the House of Commons had made another change necessary; and that other change had not yet taken place.