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    19th Century · English

    The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State

    John Wade

    The Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, by John Wade (1788–1875), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    134
    Variants
    134
    Genre
    Political Theory
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Address to the New Edition.prose
    2. 02Dedication to the People.prose
    3. 03Addendum, Ministerial Plans on Tithes.prose
    4. 04The Extraordinary Black Book, Church of England.prose
    5. 05I.: Origin and Tenure of Church Property.prose
    6. 06II.: Patronage of the Church.prose
    7. 07John Pretyman:prose
    8. 08III.: Sinecurism—non-residence—pluralities—church Discipline.prose
    9. 09IV.: Revenues Oe the Established Clergy.prose
    10. 10Observations.prose
    11. 11V.: Rapacity of the Clergy Exemplified.prose
    12. 12VI.: Origin and Defects of the Church Liturgy.prose
    13. 13VII.: Number, Wealth, Moral and Educational Efficiency of Protestant Dissenters.prose
    14. 14Twenty Reasons why Dissenters should not be compelled to pay Church Rates and Tithes, or in any way to support the Churcprose
    15. 15VIII.: Who Would Be Benefited by a Reform of the Church?prose
    16. 16Explanations. (1)prose
    17. 17Valuation of Sees and Dignities in the King’s Book.prose
    18. 18Church of Ireland.prose
    19. 19Non-residence of the Irish Clergy.prose
    20. 20Oppressiveness of the Tithe System.prose
    21. 21Proportion of Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.prose
    22. 22Management of the First Fruits Fund.prose
    23. 23Promotions in the Irish Church.prose
    24. 24Intolerance towards Dissenters and Roman Catholics.prose
    25. 25Crisis of the Irish Church at the close of 1831.prose
    26. 26Conclusion.prose
    27. 27Revenues of the Crown.prose
    28. 28Crown Lands.prose
    29. 29Income and Expenditure of the Land-revenues.prose
    30. 30Droits of the Crown and Admiralty.prose
    31. 31Four-and-a-half Per Cent. Duties.prose
    32. 32Scotch CIVIL List—gibraltar Duties—escheats—duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster—fines and Penalties.prose
    33. 33The CIVIL List.prose
    34. 34CIVIL List of William IV.prose
    35. 35Royal Debts and Expenditure During the Late Reigns.prose
    36. 36Policy and Character of the Two Late Reigns.prose
    37. 37Scotch CIVIL List, Privy Council, Diplomatic Missions, and Consular Establishments.prose
    38. 38Ambassadors and Diplomatic Missions.prose
    39. 39Consular Establishments.prose
    40. 40The Aristocracy.prose
    41. 41I.: Right of Primogeniture and Entails.prose
    42. 42II.: Privileges of Peers.prose
    43. 43III.: Injustice of Aristocratic Taxation.prose
    44. 44IV.: Aristocratic Game-laws.prose
    45. 45V.: Incomes of the Aristocracy.prose
    46. 46VI.: Increase of the Peerage.prose
    47. 47VII.: Sources of Aristocratic Monopoly.prose
    48. 48Law and Courts of Law.prose
    49. 49Summary of Legal Abuses and Defects.prose
    50. 50Absurdities and Delays in Administrative Justice.prose
    51. 51Oppressions Under the Excise-laws.prose
    52. 52Prospects of Legal Reform.prose
    53. 53Judges’ Salaries, Court of Chancery.prose
    54. 54Masters in Chancery.prose
    55. 55Imprisonment for Debt.prose
    56. 56Progress of the Public Debt and Taxes.prose
    57. 57William the Third’s Reign, from 1688 to 1702.prose
    58. 58Queen Anne’s Reign, from 1701 to 1714.prose
    59. 59George the Second’s Reign, from 1727 to 1760.prose
    60. 60George the Third’s Reign, from 1760 to 1820.prose
    61. 61American War.prose
    62. 62Exposition of the Funding System.prose
    63. 63Plans for the Redemption of the Debt.prose
    64. 64Dead-weight Annuity Project.prose
    65. 65New Suggestions for Liquidating the Debt.prose
    66. 66Catastrophe of the Funding System.prose
    67. 67Taxation and Government Expenditure, General Principles of Taxation and Finance.prose
    68. 68Abuses in the Expenditure of Government.prose
    69. 69Workings of Taxation.prose
    70. 70East-india Company.prose
    71. 71Indian Wars and Territorial Acquisitions.prose
    72. 72Government and Patronage of India.prose
    73. 73Territorial Revenues of India.prose
    74. 74Commercial Intercourse with the Chinese.prose
    75. 75Commercial Profits of the Company.prose
    76. 76Renewal of the Charter of the East-india Company.prose
    77. 77Territorial Debt of India, Bank of England.prose
    78. 78Thoughts on a New Bank of England.prose
    79. 79No. IV, Postscript. (1)prose
    80. 80Municipal Corporations, Companies, Guilds, and Fraternities.prose
    81. 81Origin of Corporations, Guilds, and Fraternities.prose
    82. 82Management and Revenues of the City Companies.prose
    83. 83Corporations of Cities and Towns.prose
    84. 84Abstract of the Payments, Dr. Brady’s Interpretation of Communitatis.prose
    85. 85Warwick.prose
    86. 86Places, Pensions, Sinecures, Compensations, Reversions, Half-pay, and Superannuations.prose
    87. 87Military and Naval Half-pay and CIVIL Superannuations.prose
    88. 88Sinecures, Reversions, and Pensions.prose
    89. 89Compensations and Retired Allowances.prose
    90. 90Salaries and Pensions Exceeding One Thousand Pounds.prose
    91. 91Reductions of the Whig Ministry.prose
    92. 92Explanations. (2)prose
    93. 93House of Commons, Past, Present, and to Come.prose
    94. 94I.—: Progress of the Constitution Up to the Reform Bill.prose
    95. 95II.: Adequacy of the Reform Bill to the Wants of the Nation.prose
    96. 96Iii.—: Practical Results of a Reformed House of Commons.prose
    97. 97No. VIII, Schedule (C.)prose
    98. 98Schedule (D.)prose
    99. 99No. IX, No. X.prose
    100. 100No. XII, Retrospective Glance at Past Houses of Commons.prose
    101. 101Appendix, Inns of Court and Chancery.prose
    102. 102Dead Weight, Dividends Payable on the Public Debt.prose
    103. 103Colonial Statistics, House of Lords.prose
    104. 104Church Patronage of the Nobility, Explanations. (3)prose
    105. 105Commissioners of Sewers.prose
    106. 106Progress of Population.prose
    107. 107Postscript. (2)prose
    108. 108The ‘Crisis.’prose
    109. 109Appendix to the Black Book, Chapter I.: General Principles and Practices of the Reform Ministry.prose
    110. 110Chapter II.: The Plough and the Loom.prose
    111. 111Chapter III.: The Church and Dissenters, I.—: Utility of an Established Church.prose
    112. 112Ii.—: Measures for the Relief of Dissenters.prose
    113. 113Iii.—: Tenure of Church Property.prose
    114. 114Chapter IV.: Working of the Excise Laws.prose
    115. 115Chapter V.: Poor Laws’ Amendment Act.prose
    116. 116Lord Brougham’s Speech on the Poor Laws.prose
    117. 117Chapter VI.: Catastrophe of the House of Lords.prose
    118. 118Chapter VII.: Character and Composition of the First Reform Parliament.prose
    119. 119Chapter VIII.: Dissolution and Character of the Reform Ministry.prose
    120. 120Chapter IX.: The Duke of Wellington and the Tories.prose
    121. 121Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Revenue Inquiry, To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.prose
    122. 122Remarks on the Ecclesiastical Report.prose
    123. 123Iii.—: Parliamentary Papers, 1.: Alterations in Public Offices.prose
    124. 1241.—: Counties and Divisions, 2.—: Cities, Boroughs, and Towns.prose
    125. 1257.—: Poor Laws, 7.—: One Member holding the Reversion of Offices under the Crown after one or more lives, stating the ofprose
    126. 126Ix.—: Future Policy of the Tories, Duke of Wellington.prose
    127. 127Sir Robert Peel.prose
    128. 128X.—: Whig Claims to National Confidence.prose
    129. 129Xii.—: Proportion of Churchmen and Dissenters, Xiii.—: Obituary and Corrections.prose
    130. 130I.—: New Cabinet Ministers.prose
    131. 131Ii.—: Not of the New Cabinet.prose
    132. 132Iii.—: Law Appointments.prose
    133. 133Iv.—: Royal Household Appointments.prose
    134. 134Parliamentary Candidates.prose