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

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E. Wilson, 1835 - Great Britain - 815 pages

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Contents

Church of England without Poor Clergy unless it be curates
58
Corporation of Leeds
67
ORIGIN AND DEFECTS OF THE CHURCH LITURGY
73
Strange mode of ordaining priests
79
WHO WOULD BE BENEFITED BY ECCLESIASTICAL
88
CHAPTER II
98
Estimate of the revenues of the Protestant establishment
99
General principles of finance and taxation
112
CHURCH OF IRELAND
138
Return of promotions in the Irish church
179
Ireland an illustration of Oligarchical government
183
Estimate of the value of crown lands
197
Fourandahalf per cent Leeward Island duties
203
Scotch hereditary revenues
210
Civil list allowance augmented a quarter of a million in 1820
217
Boasted independence of the Judges considered
224
Remarks on the Whig civil list
225
ALPHABETIC LIST OF PLACEMEN PENSIONERS SINECURISTS
236
PRIVY COUNCILDIPLOMATIC MISSIONSAND
244
Consular establishments
250
Triumphs of knowledge over feudal barbarisms
256
Injustice of aristocratic taxation
262
Different classes of society and their respective incomes
277
Dunnings mode of expounding acts of parliaments
290
Defects in agreements for leases and conveyances
309
Law of debtor and creditor
315
List of absurdities in judicial administration
321
Cost of war against independence of United States of America
339
Peels acts
347
Feudal system had one advantage
348
Catastrophe of the fundingsystem
359
The great exchequer job
373
Expenditure of the Coloniesutility
383
Silk and hemp duties
389
Reduction in duties on like discovery of an useful invention
395
Origin and progress of the Company
401
Territorial revenues of India
412
Facts relative to the India question
425
96
430
Compelled to pay in shillings and sixpences
439
Terms on which the Bank charter ought to be renewed
445
Corporation of City of London
467
Corporation of Gloucester
473
Salaries and number of persons employed in the public offices 480
481
HOUSE OF COMMONS PAST PRESENT AND TO COME
591
Constitutional deductions
597
Constitutional changes valueless in themselves
606
31
610
Population houses c of boroughs not disfranchised
612
Increase of the peerage
613
Sumptuous pickings of lawyers
614
131
615
Number of parliaments held in each reign
621
Englandthe only country to which ecclesiastical reform has
622
CHAPTER IV
627
Difficulty of fixing the public mind on a new subject
636
Returns of Army and Navy halfpay and retired allowances
640
Return of the incomes of the royal family
642
464
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
468
676
REVENUES OF THE CROWN
677
428
680
West India Question
2
Chandos Motion on Agriculture
5
Session 1834 Humes Motion on the CornLaws
6
Harveys Motion on the PensionList
7
Repeal of the Septennial
8
Dissenters Admission into the Universities
9
Ingilbys Motion on the MaltDuty
10
Cobbetts Motion on ditto
11
For Removal of the Bishops from the House of Lords
12
Minority on Third Reading of the Poor Laws Amendment Act
13
430
21
List of Placemen Pensioners Sinecurists Grantees c in the First Reformed House of Commons 11
62
The unChristian conduct of the established Clergysupporters
68
138
83
502
86
Whig Claims to National Confidence 13
120
Proportion of Churchmen and Dissenters in 203 Towns and Vil lages in England from local Returns transmitted to the Congre gational Union 122
122
394
124

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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 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 77 - The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the Body and Blood of Christ, as our bodies are by the Bread and Wine.
Page 368 - Secondly, it may obstruct the industry of the people, and discourage them from applying to certain branches of business which might give maintenance and employment to great multitudes. While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Thirdly, by the forfeitures and...
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 627 - Benchers of the two societies, their heirs and assigns for ever, for the lodging, reception, and education of the professors and students of the laws of England...
Page 368 - The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation, is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists, what is called, the equality or inequality of taxation.

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