The English Bill of Rights is a statute law that was passed by Parliament and given royal assent on December 16, 1689. Along with the Magna Carta (1215), the Petition of Right (1628), the Act of Habeas Corpus (1679), and the Act of Settlement (1701), the English Bill of Rights is considered one of the most important documents that make up the uncodified constitution of England. The constitution is said to be uncodified because it is not recorded in a single document but is rather a collection of documents written at different times. The English Bill of Rights was composed amid the turbulence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89, during which James II fled to France and the throne was offered to his daughter Mary and son-in-law William of Orange. The bill's passage into law is regarded as a legal and constitutional watershed.