The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland ; Civil List and Crown Revenues ; Incomes, Privileges, and Power, of the Aristocracy, Privy Council, Diplomatic, and Consular Establishments ; Law and Judicial Administration ; Representation and Prospects of Reform Under the New Ministry ; Profits, Influence, and Monopoly of the Bank of England and East-India Company ; with Strictures on the Renewal of These Charters ; Debt and Funding System ; Salaries, Fees and Emoluments in Courts of Justice, Public Offices, and Colonies ; Lists of Pluralists, Placemen, Pensioners and Sinecurists ; the Whole Corrected from the Latest Official Returns, and Presenting a Complete View of the Expenditure, Patronage, Influence and Abuses of the Government in Church, State, Law and Representation

Effingham Wilson, 1831 - 683 pages

Dr Lushingtons error in considering advowsons private property	17

SINECURISM NONRESIDENCE PLURALITIES	28

Pretexts of the clergy for nonresidence	34

Quarterly Reviews estimate of church revenues examined	41

Statement of church revenues from tithe church fees c	49

Church of England without poor clergy unless it be curates	54

RAPACITY OF THE CLERGY EXEMPLIFIED	60

LITURGY OF THE CHURCH	68

Insecurity of titles to estates	274

Real cause of no reform in the court of chancery	280

Prospects of legal reform	286

PROGRESS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT AND TAXES	294

STATE OF THE REPRESENTATION	295

Cost of the French war from 1793 to 1815	300

Progress and state of the Debt to the year 1830	306

Deadweightannuity project	316

Not meant tithes should be abolished but commuted for an equiva	74

Conclusion of church of England	80

Pluralities unions and extent of benefices	87

Estimate of the revenues of the Protestant establishment	95

CHAPTER II	96

Oppressiveness of the tithe system illustrated	102

Intolerance of the church towards dissenters and catholics	110

CHAPTER III	118

Amount and appropriation of landed revenues	126

Triumphs of knowledge over the privileged orders	128

Sale of them recommended	132

Fourandahalf per cent Leeward Island duties	138

Gibraltar duties duchies of Cornwallescheatsfinesand	144

Origin of the privypurse and court pensionfund	151

Civil list allowance augmented a quarter of a million in 1820	158

Royal debts and expenditure during the two last reigns	165

Policy and character of the two late reigns	172

PRIVY COUNCILDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSAND	180

Consular establishments	188

Tendency of right of primogeniture and entails	200

Incomes of landed interest the legitimate fund for taxation	206

Incomes of the aristocracy	212

Extent of acres appertaining to the Irish sees	221

List of places which formerly sent members to parliament	232

Representation in Scotland and Ireland	244

CHAPTER VII	250

Hodgepodge actsblunder in the forgery act of sir J Scarlett	257

Courts of request c encourage a vicious system of credit	263

Absurdities of fines and recoveries	270

Severe distress consequent of an attack on the funds	322

ABUSES IN THE REVENUEDEPARTMENT	327

THE EAST INDIA COMPANY	348

Origin and progress of the Company	354

ADVERTISEMENT	363

Territorial revenues and commerce of India	367

DEDICATION TO THE PEOPLE	374

Mistaken views of political economists	377

Resumption of cashpayments in 1823	383

Bank hanged and transported 800 persons and realized a profit	389

Civil and military pluralities	395

Pensionroll amounts to 777556 per annum	401

Salaries and pensions exceeding 1000	408

List of fortytwo placemen whose incomes exceeded 339809	411

CHAPTER I	412

Addenda to Place and Pension list	499

CHURCH OF ENGLAND	502

Conduct of public men in respect of religious	513

Valuation of sees and dignities in the Kings Book	535

ORIGIN AND TENURE OF CHURCH PROPERTY	537

Civillist expenditure in lordstewards department	541

Sir R Peels argument on Parliamentary Reform	546

Return of number of Metropolitan Police and divisions	548

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM UNDER THE NEW MINISTRY	551

Answer to the argument that men of ability are returned to	560

Origin and fourfold division of tithes	561

Extravagant expenditure of Company and necessity of retrench	573

Church property proved to be public property from legislative acts	576

Titre	The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of the United Church of England and Ireland ; Civil List and Crown Revenues ; Incomes, Privileges, and Power, of the Aristocracy, Privy Council, Diplomatic, and Consular Establishments ; Law and Judicial Administration ; Representation and Prospects of ...
Auteurs	The original editor, John Wade
Éditeur	Effingham Wilson, 1831
Original provenant de	National Library of the Netherlands
Numérisé	18 janv. 2013
Longueur	683 pages

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