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 Ch.XI.Sec.il.] E<rtraordinart/ Revenue. 237 with their payment, very little of them is now returned into the King's exchequer, for a part of whose royal maintenance they were originally intended. All future grants of many of these fines,- &c. are, however, by the statute 1 Ann, st. 1. c. 7. s. 7. to endure for no longer time than the Prince's life who grants them, and if otherwise granted, the grant shall be void without a scire facias or inquisition, &c. 6. The prerogatives as to the aistody of idiots and hmaticsy which constitute another branch of the King's ordinary reve- nue, has been already considered («). III. With respect to the third and last branch of the ordi- nary revenue of the Crown, arising from profits from certain royal privileges or franchises, which are sometimes in the hands of subjects, and are frequently annexed to manors, &c. (as forests, mines, fish and fisheries, waifs, wrecks, estrays, trea- sure-trove, and deodands) it will be remembered that we have already fully treated of them (6), and consequently any further mention of them in this place is unnecessary. SECT. II. As to the Extraordinary Revenue of the Crown, We have already before pointed out the change which occur- red about the period of the Revolution, in 1688, in the mode of supplying the wants of the Government {c). The King's ordinary or inherent revenues having been gradually reduced to a very narrow compass, it became necessary to resort to a fresh system of parliamentary taxation and finance, which was an- tiently but "^little known. The present taxation is principally founded on the positive regulations of various statutes, which it is hardly relevant to consider in this work. The revenue, though under the superintendence of Government, being at the present day peculiarly the revenue of the public, and its credi- tors, and the civil list alone being properly the King's revenue, (a) Ante, ch. 9, s. 1. (c) Ante, s. 1. lb) Ante, ch. 8. s. 2. in