The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Municipal Corporations, and Public Companies

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E. Wilson, 1835 - 815 pages

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CHAPTER
ix
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW EDITION
xxxii
Origin and fourfold division of tithes
10
Clerical monopoly illustrated by examples
28
Dissenters like Roman slaves never numbered
30
Discoveries of Mr Wright on church discipline
39
Suggestions for an authentic return of ecclesiastical revenues
42
Lectureships public charities surplice fees new churches
48
Progress and state of the Debt to the year 1831
346
689
347
Deadweightannuity project
354
Examination of question on violation of national faith
362
Department of the navy and dockyards
376
Factory system and slavetrade
383
Taxes on newspapers and their influence on the press
389
Origin and progress of the Company
395

Impositions practised in repect of poor livings
55
CHAPTER I
60
Comparative cost of Church of England and other churches
63
True policy of the church expounded
70
Defects in the book of Common Prayer
76
WHO WOULD BE BENEFITED BY ECCLESIASTICAL
86
Christianity peculiarly the worship of the people
92
Example of Dissenters and Americans
94
Valuation of Sees and Dignities in the Kings Book
131
Wealth bequeathed to their families by the bishops
142
Statement of sums to be paid in lieu of tithes in several parishes
148
General principles of finance and taxation
152
Estimate of the revenues of the Protestant establishment
154
Nonresidence of bishops and parochial clergy
160
Proportion of Roman Catholics and Protestants
166
Return of promotions in the Irish church
172
Crisis of the Irish church at the close of 1831
179
Droits of the crown and admiralty
184
Origin and history of the crown lands
186
Amount and appropriation of landed revenues
192
Fourandahalf per cent Leeward Island duties
195
Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown
210
Publication of the court pensionlist
216
Examples of the violation of these principles
217
one hundred millions
225
Peculiar death of Geo IV and his chief counsellors
234
Constitutional changes valueless in themselves
235
PRIVY COUNCILDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSAND
244
The great exchequer job
249
Consular establishments
250
Clergy lords and commons deviated from original objects of their
256
Injustice of aristocratic taxation
262
Aristocratic game lawsa specimen of late tyranny of the
268
Diminutive income of the Peerage compared with that of other
275
Increase of the peerage
281
LAW AND COURTS OF
286
Obscure language in which they are drawn example from sir
293
Debtor laws chief source of litigation and legal emoluments
299
Different laws for different persons
305
Insecurity of titles to estates
312
Oppressions under the exciselaws
321
Religious opinions determined by education
328
PROGRESS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT AND TAXES
334
When settled people cease to agitate questions of civil rights
338
Cost of the French war from 1793 to 1815
340
Indian wars and territorial acquisitions
401
Territorial revenues of India
412
Thoughts on the renewal of the Companys charter
418
Extravagant expenditure of Company and necessity of retrench
424
Sources of Bank profits and their enormous amount
425
Origin and progress of the Bank
430
Mischiefs of irresponsible power of Bank over the circulation
436
Pitt and plunder system the chief source of Bank profits
439
Return of persons convicted of forgery
446
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS COMPANIES GUILDS
452
Corporations do not embody the interests of cities and towns
460
Corporation of City of London
467
Corporation of Gloucester
473
Corporation of Leeds
474
Salaries and number of persons employed in the public offices
480
Pensionroll amounts to 805022 per annum
489
Salaries and pensions exceeding 1000
497
Principles on which government has been carried on by Tory admi
503
ALPHABETIC LIST OF PLACEMEN PENSIONERS SINECURISTS
505
Addendum to Place and Pension list
589
Causes of public prosperity subsequent to the Revolution
595
Principles which ought to determine the elective qualification
601
STATISTICS OF REPRESENTATION
609
Population houses c of the proposed New Boroughs
615
RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT PAST HOUSES OF COMMONS
623
Trinity College Dublin
629
Expenditure of the army navy ordnance
638
Returns of Army and Navy halfpay and retired allowances
640
Number of public creditors and amount of their dividends
642
Population free and slaves imports and exports of the Colonies
643
House of Lords origin and character of
644
Borough lords and their Representatives
646
Ecclesiastical Patronage of each of the Nobility and the value of Rectories and Vicarages in their gift
650
Return of the amount of church rates county rates and high way rates c in each county of England and Wales
668
Return of lay and clerical magistrates
669
Commissioners of sewers institution of and abuses in their administration
670
Progress of Population in Great Britain
672
636
681
CHAPTER III
iii
CHAPTER XII
xii
CHURCH OF IRELAND
Political influence of Bank and East India Company
638
131

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