Footnote 63: The words to be employed were prescribed originally in the Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath, passed in the first year of William and Mary. For the text see Robertson, Select Statutes, Cases, and Documents, 65-68. An historical sketch of some value is A. Bailey, The Succession to the English Crown (London, 1879).[(Back)]
Footnote 64: For the text of the Regency Act of 1811, passed by reason of the incapacitation of George III., see Robertson, Statutes, Cases and Documents, 171-182. For an excellent survey of the general subject see May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, I., Chap. 3.[(Back)]
Footnote 65: Under Charles II. Parliament began to appropriate portions of the revenue for specific purposes, and after 1688 this became the general practice. Throughout a century the proceeds of particular taxes were appropriated for particular ends. But in 1787 Pitt simplified the procedure involved by creating a single Consolidated Fund into which all revenues were turned and from which all expenditures were met.[(Back)]
Footnote 66: Accuracy requires mention of the fact that, by exception, the crown still enjoys the revenues of the Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall, the latter being part of the appanage of the Prince of Wales.[(Back)]
Footnote 67: On the history of the Civil List see May and Holland, Constitutional History of England, I., 152-175.[(Back)]
Footnote 68: Law of the Constitution (7th ed.), 420.[(Back)]
Footnote 69: Law and Custom of the Constitution, II., Pt. I., 3-5.[(Back)]
Footnote 70: Abolished by the Felony Act of 1870.[(Back)]
Footnote 71: This power, in practice, is seldom exercised. The Act of Settlement prescribed that "no pardon shall be pleadable to an impeachment by the Commons in parliament."[(Back)]
Footnote 72: In 1707, when the Queen refused her assent to a bill for settling the militia in Scotland.[(Back)]