Note 59 — Chapter XIII · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.
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They expressed this with strange latitude in a resolution some years after, that all aids and supplies to his majesty in parliament are the sole gift of the Commons. Parl. Hist. 1005. As they did not mean to deny that the Lords must concur in the bill, much less that they must pay their quota, this language seems indefensible.