The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Municipal Corporations, and Public CompaniesE. Wilson, 1835 - 815 pages |
Table des matières
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 |
Cost of the French war from 1793 to 1815 | 340 |
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 |
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 |
Origin and progress of the Company | 395 |
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 |
CHAPTER III | iii |
CHAPTER XII | xii |
CHURCH OF IRELAND | |
Political influence of Bank and East India Company | |
638 | |
131 | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law ... John Wade Affichage du livre entier - 1835 |
The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law ... John Wade Affichage du livre entier - 1835 |