[83] Cf. p. 56.
[84] Cf. p. 56.
[85] Acts, ii. p. 241.
[86] Ibid., ii. pp. 215, 220.
[87] Original Cronykil of Scotland, book viii, c. 46.
[88] The control of taxation was maintained by Parliament, and the king was informed that the grants were to be used for special purposes. No general statement was made which could be construed into a definite claim of the right of appropriation of supplies. The "Parliament" merely used for a particular purpose the power which at that moment it chanced to possess. It is the absence of any assertion of or struggle for constitutional principle that is ultimately decisive against the "constitutional" theory. When, as here, the nobles had the power, they said they would do certain things, and they did them. But there is no conscious effort, traceable from generation to generation, such as we find in English history.
[89] Cf. John Riddell, Stewartiana, Edinburgh, 1843.
[90] Tytler, History of Scotland, iii. 26.
[91] Burton, History of Scotland, ii. 351.
[92] Burton, History of Scotland, ii. 373.