ABSTRACT
One of the first Acts to be passed by the Cavalier Parliament was that declaring all orders or Ordinances of both Houses or of either House of Parliament which had not received the royal assent to be null and void. The right of veto was twice exercised by Charles II: in 1662, when he vetoed a bill for confirming the office of Register of Sales, and in 1678, when he vetoed a Militia Bill, on the ground that it would deprive him of control over that force. Charles II and James II claimed and exercised a power to dispense with, and to suspend, statutes. The Convention Parliament in 1660 seemed to recognize that Charles possessed a certain power to dispense with ecclesiastical statutes; for, when they settled the revenue, they apparently calculated that the King would derive some income from the fees paid by recusants for dispensations. James II made much use of the dispensing power.
