| 释义 |
Civil List orig.
A list of the charges for the civil or administrative government of the state; the establishment supported by the moneys voted on this list (obs.); the term was used to specify a number of charges upon the public revenue, most of which have been at different times removed to other accounts, and it is now retained for the amount voted by parliament from the public revenue for the household and personal expenses of the monarch, and for the payment of the Civil List pensions, i.e. pensions granted by the royal bounty, and not provided for in connexion with employment in one of the departments of the public service.
1712Budgell Spect. No. 313 §17 The Youth..endeavoured to raise himself on the Civil List..[he] succeeded so well, that he was in a short time made a Judge under the Protector. 1735–8Bolingbroke On Parties 127 All our Princes since..have continued to be, only Proprietors for Life of that Part of the publick Revenue, which is appropriated to their Civil-List. 1849H. Martineau Hist. Peace i. ii. 24 In 1816 it was mentioned that there was a debt of {pstlg}277,000 upon the Civil List. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 558 The expenses of the royal household are now entirely separated from the expenses of the civil government; but by a whimsical perversion, the name of Civil List has remained attached to..the revenue..appropriated to the expenses of the Royal Household. |