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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Lectureships public charities surplice fees now churches
48
Impositions practised in repect of poor livinga
55
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
Dissenters like Roman slaves never numbered
79
Tabular statement of religious denominations in England
85
Rights of layimpropriators examined
91
Valuation of Sees and Dignities in the Kings Book
131
CHAPTER III
137
Wealth bequeathed to their families by the bishops
142
Statement of sums to be paid in lieu of tithes in several parishes
148
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
Origin and history of the crown lands
186
Amount and appropriation of landed revenues
192
Estimate of the value of crown lands
195
Fourandahalf per cent Leeward Island duties
203
Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown
210
Publication of the court pensionlist
216
Total expenditure from accession of Geo III to the death of
225
Peculiar death of Geo IV and his chief counsellors
234
ALPHABETIC LIST OF PLACEMEN PENSIONERS SINECURISTS
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
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
Different laws for different persons
305
Insecurity of titles to estates
312
Oppressions under the exciselaws
321
Official returns illustrative of law and courts of law
329
Addendum to Place and Pension list
381
WORKINGS OF TAXATION
385
Irresponsible power of the Times newspaper
391
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
Origin and progress of the Bank
430
Mischiefs of irresponsible power of Bank over the circulation
436
Directors have not acted on sound principles of banking
442
Annual sums payable to the Bank by the public
448
Origin of corporations guilds and fraternities
454
Management and revenues of companies of the City of London
460
Corporation of Bristol
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
Pensions under bankruptcy court
497
CHAPTER XVII
500
HOUSE OF COMMONS PAST PRESENT AND TO COME
591
Constitutional deductions
597
Universal suffrage impracticability and mischievousness of
603
Constitutional changes valueless in themselves
606
Population houses c of boroughs not disfranchised
612
Number of parliaments held in each reign
621
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
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

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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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