Its form was settled.

The third estate had gained a fuller parliamentary power.
The principle of ministerial responsibility to the Houses had been established by formal statute.

But the jealousy of Edward was at last completely roused, and from this moment he looked on the new power as a rival to his own.

The Parliament of 1341 had no sooner broken up than he revoked by Letters Patent the statutes it had passed as done in prejudice of his prerogative and only assented to for the time to prevent worse confusion.

The regular assembly of the estates was suddenly interrupted, and two years passed without a Parliament.