Note 60 — Chapter XIII · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION UNDER CHARLES II.

Lords' and Commons' Journals, April 17th and 22nd, 1679; Parl. Hist. iv. 480; Hatsell's Precedents, iii. 109, 368, 409.

In a pamphlet by Lord Anglesea, if I mistake not, entitled, "Case stated of the Jurisdiction of the House of Lords in point of Impositions," 1696, a vigorous and learned defence of the right of the Lords to make alterations in money-bills, it is admitted that they cannot increase the rates; since that would be to originate a charge on the people, which they cannot do. But it is even said in the year-book (33 H. 6) that if the Commons grant tonnage for four years, and the Lords reduce the terms to two years, they need not send the bill down again. This of course could not be supported in modern times.