It was most undesirable that the heads of the great executive departments should be kept out of that House.

The bill, as altered, left that House open both to those who ought and to those who ought not to have been admitted.

It very properly let in the Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but it let in with them Commissioners of Wine Licenses and Commissioners of the Navy, Receivers, Surveyors, Storekeepers, Clerks of the Acts and Clerks of the Cheque, Clerks of the Green Cloth and Clerks of the Great Wardrobe.

So little did the Commons understand what they were about that, after framing a law, in one view most mischievous, and in another view most beneficial, they were perfectly willing that it should be transformed into a law quite harmless and almost useless.
They agreed to the amendment; and nothing was now wanting but the royal sanction.
That sanction certainly ought not to have been withheld, and probably would not have been withheld, if William had known how unimportant the bill now was.

But he understood the question as little as the Commons themselves.