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Read Replies (1) | Respond to <<Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy >>Another important consequence of William's reign in England involved the ending of a bitter conflict between Crown and Parliament that had lasted since the accession of the first English monarch of the House of Stuart , James I , in 1603. The conflict over royal and parliamentary power had led to the English Civil War during the 1640s and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. [133] During William's reign, however, the conflict was settled in Parliament's favour by the Bill of Rights 1689 , the Triennial Act 1694 and the Act of Settlement 1701 . n 1702, William died of pneumonia , a complication from a broken collarbone following a fall from his horse, Sorrel. The horse had been confiscated from Sir John Fenwick, one of the Jacobites who had conspired against William. [124] Because his horse had stumbled into a mole's burrow, many Jacobites toasted "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat". [125] Years later, Winston Churchill , in his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples , stated that the fall "opened the door to a troop of lurking foes".
