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 their 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. By the original editor.
Publisher: London : Published by Effingham Wilson, 1831Description: xx, 576p.Subject(s): Great Britain. Parliament -- Reform | Political corruption -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryItem type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reference material | House of Lords Library - Palace Librarian's Room, Principal Floor | Farnham Tracts | VOL.333 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Not for loan | 40395-1001 |
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First published in 1820 as "The black book, or, corruption unmasked"