The King thanked the Houses for their loyalty and liberality, informed them that he must soon set out for the Continent, and commanded them to adjourn themselves.

He gave his assent on that day to many bills, public and private; but when the title of one bill, which had passed the Lower House without a single division and the Upper House without a single protest, had been read by the Clerk of the Crown, the Clerk of the Parliaments declared, according to the ancient form, that the King and the Queen would consider of the matter.

Those words had very rarely been pronounced before the accession of William.

They have been pronounced only once since his death.

But by him the power of putting a Veto on laws which had been passed by the Estates of the Realm was used on several important occasions.