Note 384 — Chapter XVI · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE REIGNS OF ANNE, GEORGE I., AND GEORGE II. (continued 2)

Resolved, That whatever ill consequences may arise from the so long deferring the supplies for the year's service, are to be attributed to the fatal counsel of putting off the meeting of a parliament so long, and to unnecessary delays of the House of Commons. Lords' Journals, 23rd June 1701. The Commons had previously come to a vote, that all the ill consequences which may at this time attend the delay of the supplies granted by the Commons for the preserving the public peace, and maintaining the balance of Europe, are to be imputed to those who, to procure an indemnity for their own enormous crimes, have used their utmost endeavours to make a breach between the two houses. Commons' Journals, June 20th.