Wealth bequeathed to their families by the bishops

Biographical notice of the late bishop Warburton

142

143

Injurious tendency of Act for composition of tithes. 144

Pluralities, unions, and extent of benefices

...

Statement of sums to be paid in lieu of tithes in several parishes,

the names of incumbents and patrons

145

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148

Return of parishes which have compounded, and total amount of

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Ministers' money and church fees.

lay and clerical tithes

152

153

Estimate of the revenues of the Protestant establishment.

Number of clergy among whom the revenues are divided

154

155

Constitution of the Deans and Collegiate Chapters

Eight hundred and fifty individuals possess 3195 ecclesiastical

offices...

Tabular statement of church patronage

Non-residence of bishops and parochial clergy

Oppressiveness of the Tithe System illustrated.

Appointment of tithe committee in the House of Lords

Proportion of Roman Catholics and Protestants

176

179

State stipends paid to Dissenters-origin of Regium Donum ....

Intolerance of the church towards Dissenters and Catholics

Crisis of the Irish church at the close of 1831 .....

General conclusions on the United Church of England and Ireland 182

CHAPTER IV.

REVENUES OF THE CROWN.

Delusion practised in respect of the crown revenues.

Origin and history of the crown lands

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Abuses in the management of the landed revenues

Amount and appropriation of landed revenues

184

186

189

... 192

Expenditure on Regent-street, Charing-cross, Windsor Castle, &c. 193

Pickings from palace jobs ・・・・・

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193

Official statement of income and expenditure of landed revenues.. 194

Origin of and examples of application of produce of admiralty

droits

Four-and-a-half per cent. Leeward Island duties

197

202

Expended in parliamentary jobbing-Burke's pension .......... 203

Curious expedient of Tory ministers for raising a jobbing fund.. 205

West-India church establishment

Scotch hereditary revenues

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Gibraltar duties-duchies of Cornwall-escheats - fines-and

penalties

205

. 207

.... 208

Statement of produce of hereditary revenues of the crown

.. 210

CHAPTER V.

CIVIL LIST.

King's household-its Gothic origin-and expensive establishment 212

Departments of the lord chamberlain, lord steward, and master of

Origin of the privy-purse and court pension-list

Publication of the court pension-list ・・・・

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

Civil lists of George III. and George IV.....

Settlement of civil list of William IV.

213

215

216

Royal debts and expenditure during the two last reigns .....

Total expenditure from accession of Geo. III. to the death of Geo.

........

221

IV. one hundred millions

225

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The King exempt from taxes -a court and levee.

266

Policy and character of the two late reigns ....

228

Peculiar death of Geo. IV. and his chief counsellors

Ancient payments out of English, Scotch, and Irish civil lists,

with illustrative notes

239

CHAPTER VI.

PRIVY COUNCIL-DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS-AND

CONSULAR ESTABLISHMENTS.

Number and constitution of the king's privy council..

....

244

Sir James Graham's motion on the emoluments of privy counsellors 245

Ambassadors and diplomatic missions

Consular establishments.

Official returns relative to foreign ministers and consuls

Salaries and allowances as fixed by the Whig ministry

247

CHAPTER VII.

THE ARISTOCRACY.

Triumphs of knowledge over feudal barbarisms...

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Clergy, lords, and commons deviated from original objects of their

Tendency of right of primogeniture and entails.

Objectionable privileges of the peerage...

Injustice of aristocratic taxation

...

268

...

271

..... ....

272

Incomes of landed interest, the legitimate fund for taxation

Specimen of partial exemptions from taxes

..........

Aristocratic game laws-a specimen of late tyranny of the Bo-

roughmongers

Incomes of the aristocracy...

Anti-property theories of Robert Owen and St. Simon

Diminutive income of the Peerage compared with that of other

classes

Influence of Toryism of late reigns on character of the Peerage

Votes of the lords on Reform Bill

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Absurdity of hereditary legislation....

Sources of aristocratic monopoly and abuse

Judges do not understand the law, though the people are expected

291

.. 293

Dunning's mode of expounding acts of parliaments

Causes of the multiplication of statutes.

Obscure language in which they are drawn -example from sir R.

Peel's acts..........

297

Hodge-podge acts-blunder in the forgery act of sir J. Scarlett.... 295

Legislation, an after-dinner amusement of the house of commons 296

Number and emoluments of the professional classes

Debtor laws chief source of litigation and legal emoluments...... 299

Courts of request, &c. encourage a vicious system of credit...... 301

Official returns illustrative of law and courts of law

Working of the insolvent debtors' act

CHAPTER IX.

PROGRESS OF THE PUBLIC DEBT AND TAXES.

Effects of taxes on wages and profits..

Objects of the parliamentary wars waged since 1688

334

335

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336

... 336

Short view of each reign, from the accession of William III.

Increase of debt and taxes consequent on each war since the Revo-

lution ....

Cost of war against independence of United States of America.... 339

Cost of the French war from 1793 to 1815..

Conclusions on disastrous policy of the Borough-government

....

340

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342

CHAPTER X.

EXPOSITION OF THE FUNDING-SYSTEM.

Feudal system had one advantage

343

344

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346

Funds, exchequer-bills, and navy-bills explained.........................

Progress and state of the Debt, to the year 1831 ...

Annual charge entailed on the country by the war of 1793 ...... 348

A violation of national faith perpetuate the power of the Oligarchy 362

The last resort of the Aristocracy......

363