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 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from 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

In the appendix will be found many new articles and tables of value, as those on the Ecclesiastical Patronage Of the Nobility -the House of Lords - Inns of Court - Church Rates - Trinity College - Colonial Statistics - Civil Contingencies - Remarks on the Reports on Irish Tithes - Commissioners Of Sewers Lay and Clerical Magistrates, 860.

Notwithstanding our anxiety to be correct, we cannot be sure that in every case we have succeeded. Our work is an assem blage Of facts and principles, and it would be wonderful, if, in so great a number, some errors had not escaped vigilance. Of errors of intention we know we are guiltless; Of those which have originated in the inaccuracy of the Official returns and other sources Of information on which we have relied, we cannot be SO confident.

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