The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Representation, Municipal and Corporate Bodies, with a Précis of the House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come

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Effingham Wilson, 1832 - 683 pages
 

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Strange mode of ordaining priests
79
Tabular statement of religious denominations in England
85
Droits of the crown and admiralty
87
Opinions of Lord Brougham Burke Watson and Paley on tithes
91
Valuation of Sees and Dignities in the Kings Book
131
CHAPTER III
137
Ministers money and church fees
152
State stipends paid to Dissentersorigin of Regium Donum
169
General conclusions on the United Church of England and Ireland
182
Amount and appropriation of landed revenues
193
Fourandahalf per cent Leeward Island duties
203
Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown
210
Settlement of civil list of William IV
219
Total expenditure from accession of Geo III to the death of
225
Peculiar death of Geo IV and his chief counsellors
234
Addendum to Place and Pension list
236
PRIVY COUNCILDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSAND
244
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
Increase of the peerage
277
Votes of the lords on Reform Bill
283
LAW AND COURTS OF
286
Obscure language in which they are drawnexample 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
PROGRESS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT AND TAXES
334
Cost of the French war from 1793 to 1815
340
Progress and state of the Debt to the year 1831
346
Deadweightannuity project
354
Examination of question on violation of national faith
360
Dividends on Bank Stock from establishment of Company
445
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS COMPANIES GUILDS
452
How popular constitution of corporate bodies destroyed
458
CORPORATIONS OF CITIES AND TOWNS
464
Corporation of Preston
471
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
CHAPTER XVII
500
Principles on which government has been carried on by Tory admi
503
HOUSE OF COMMONS PAST PRESENT AND TO COME
591
ADEQUACY OF THE REFORM BILL TO THE WANTS OF
598
Constitutional changes valueless in themselves
606
Population houses c of boroughs not disfranchised
612
Number of parliaments held in each reign
621
Englandthe only country to which ecclesiastical reform has
622
APPENDIX
627
Return of cities and towns with a population exceeding
636
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
A class of politicians with one idea
645
Borough lords and their Representatives
646
Ecclesiastical Patronage of each of the Nobility and the value of Rectories and Vicarages in their gift
650
Compelled to pay in shillings and sixpences
654
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
600
673
Previous political changes not altered the status of the Aristocracy 599
682

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Page 78 - RECEIVE the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 76 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 367 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 2 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Page 368 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 368 - Thirdly, by the forfeitures and other penalties which those unfortunate individuals incur who attempt unsuccessfully to evade the tax, it may frequently ruin them, and thereby put an end to the benefit which the community might have received from the employment of their capitals.
Page 3 - Atheist under the sacerdotal robes. Reasoners of such a temper were scarcely inclined to wrangle about their respective modes of faith, or of worship. It was indifferent to them what shape the folly of the multitude might choose to .assume; and they approached, with the same inward contempt, and the same external reverence, the altars of the Libyan, the Olympian, or the Capitoline Jupiter.
Page 76 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them ? Answ.
Page 430 - That no dividend shall at any time be made by the said Governor and Company, save only out of the interest, profit, or produce arising by or out of the said capital stock, or fund, or by such dealing as is allowed by Act of Parliament.
Page 78 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences : And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

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