Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Civil List

Now applied to expenses voted annually by Parliament to pay the personal expenses of the Sovereign, the household expenses, and the pensions awarded by Royal bounty; but before the reign of William III. it embraced all the heads of public expenditure, except those of the army and navy.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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