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

John Wade

E. Wilson, 1835 - 815 pages

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New disposition of ecclesiastical property at the Reformation	xxxi

Page	6

Increase of debt and taxes consequent on each war since the Revo	14

238	30

Discoveries of Mr Wright on church discipline	39

Suggestions for an authentic return of ecclesiastical revenues	42

Dr Johnsons employment before he received a pension	45

General Statement of church revenues from tithe church fees c	53

Annual charge entailed on the country by the war of 1793	354

Coronation expenditureabsurdity of the pageant	384

Proposal to manage the public journals	390

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

Observations on unequal division of ecclesiastical revenues	59

Corporation of Leeds	67

ORIGIN AND DEFECTS OF THE CHURCH LITURGY	73

Strange mode of ordaining priests	79

Droits of the crown and admiralty	87

Tithes should be commuted for an equivalent assessment on landlords	91

General principles of finance and taxation	110

ADVERTISEMENT TO THE NEW EDITION	111

Wealth bequeathed to their families by the bishops	145

Ought compensation to be allowed for Church Patronage?	152

General conclusions on the United Church of England and Ireland	182

Amount and appropriation of landed revenues	193

Origin of and examples of application of produce of admiralty	197

Boasted independence of the Judges considered	202

Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown	210

Settlement of civil list of William IV	219

Judges do not understand the law though the people are expected	224

Total expenditure from accession of Geo III to the death of	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

institution	256

Injustice of aristocratic taxation	262

Aristocratic game lawsa specimen of late tyranny of the	268

Different classes of society and their respective incomes	277

Dunnings mode of expounding acts of parliaments	289

Hodgepodge actsblunder in the forgery act of sir J Scarlett	295

Number and emoluments of the professional classes	301

Absurdities of fines and recoveries	307

Insecurity of titles to estates	313

List of absurdities in judicial administration	321

Scotch example of church reformation	339

Taxes levied on the industrious orders	340

Example of Dissenters and Americans	347

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

Dividends on Bank Stock from establishment of Company	445

Puerile attempts of the Bishops to save the church	446

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS COMPANIES GUILDS	452

How popular constitution of corporate bodies destroyed	458

CORPORATIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS	464

Corporation of Preston	471

PLACES PENSIONS SINECURES REVERSIONS HALF	479

Monstrous legal sinecures in courts of	485

Pensionroll amounts to 805022 per annum	492

Classification of 965 placemen receiving 2161927 per annum	499

CHAPTER XII	500

ALPHABETIC LIST OF PLACEMEN PENSIONERS SINECURISTS	505

Sumptuous pickings of lawyers	567

Addendum to Place and Pension list	589

Revolution of 1688 did not concede to the industrious orders their	595

Principles which ought to determine the elective qualification	601

STATISTICS OF REPRESENTATION	609

Examination of question on violation of national faith	611

Political influence of Bank and East India Company	612

Votes of the lords on Reform Bill	613

RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT PAST HOUSES OF COMMONS	623

Trinity College Dublin	629

Borough lords and their Representatives	646

Return of cities and towns with a population exceeding	681

CHAPTER III	iii

ADDRESS TO THE NEW EDITION vii	vii

Christianity peculiarly the worship of the people 1	1

Sums expended under the head of Civil Contingencies	5

CHURCH OF IRELAND	10

Ecclesiastical Patronage of each of the Nobility and the value	11

The unChristian conduct of the established Clergysupporters	68

A more revolting spectacle of ecclesiastical abuse than England	84

670	85

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Titre	The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Municipal Corporations, and Public Companies Numéros 54807 à 54814 de 19th-century legal treatises
Auteur	John Wade
Éditeur	E. Wilson, 1835
Original provenant de	Université de Harvard
Numérisé	26 août 2005
Longueur	815 pages

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