Brewer's: 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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