The Queen wisely declined a conflict with a House of Commons backed by the whole nation.
She frankly acknowledged that there was reason for complaint; she cancelled the patents which had excited the public clamours; and her people, delighted by this concession, and by the gracious manner in which it had been made, did not require from her an express renunciation of the disputed prerogative.
The discontents which her wisdom had appeased were revived by the dishonest and pusillanimous policy which her successor called Kingcraft.
He readily granted oppressive patents of monopoly.

When he needed the help of his Parliament, he as readily annulled them.

As soon as the Parliament had ceased to sit, his Great Seal was put to instruments more odious than those which he had recently cancelled.

At length that excellent House of Commons which met in 1623 determined to apply a strong remedy to the evil.

The King was forced to give his assent to a law which declared monopolies established by royal authority to be null and void.