be held frequently. The Act declared James's flight from England following the Glorious Revolution to be an abdication of the throne. It listed twelve of James's policies by which James designed to "endeavour to subvert and extirpate the protestant religion, and the laws and liberties of this kingdom". These were: by assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament; by prosecuting the Seven Bishops; by establishing the court of commissioners for ecclesiastical causes; by levying taxes for the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative as if the same was granted by Parliament; by raising and keeping a standing army within this kingdom in time of peace without consent of Parliament; by causing Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law; by violating the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament; by prosecutions in the Court of King's Bench for matters and causes cognizable only in Parliament, and by divers (diverse) other arbitrary and illegal courses; by employing unqualified persons on juries in trials, and jurors in trials for high treason which were not freeholders; by imposing excessive bail on persons committed in criminal cases against the laws made for the liberty of the subjects; by imposing excessive fines and illegal and cruel punishments; by making several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied; all which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm. In a prelude to the Act of Settlement to come twelve years later, the Bill of Rights barred Roman Catholics from the throne of England as "it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a papist prince"; thus William III and Mary II were named as the successors of James II and that the throne would pass from them first to Mary's heirs, then to her sister, Princess Anne of Denmark and her heirs (and, thereafter, to any heirs of William by a later marriage). Amendments and legacy The Bill of Rights was later supplemented by the Act of Settlement 1701, which was agreed to by the Parliament of Scotland