Temporal Pillars : Queen Anne's Bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Church of England (Paperback)

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Origins and Establishment of Queen Anne's Bounty: 1. The condition of the clergy in the late seventeenth century; 2. First fruits and tenths; 3. 'The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy' incorporated; Part II: The Church, the Law, and the Laity in the Eighteenth Century; Part III. Queen Anne's Bounty in the Eighteenth Century: 1. Starting troubles, 1704?17; 2. Two steps forward, one step back; 3. The men and the means; Part IV: Church, State, and Society, 1770?1840; Part V: The Third Church Reform Movement and the Bounty's Part in it; Part VI: The Crisis of Church Reform, 1820?35; Part VII: The Foundation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 1835?40; Part VIII. The Time of Troubles: 1. The common fund and its application; 2. The Episcopal fund; 3. Estates and leases; 4. Secretarial and constitutional difficulties; Part IX. The High Victorian Years: 1. The revised constitution; 2. The fight for survival, 1856?63; 3. Augmentations: bishops, deans and parish clergy; 4. Queen Anne's Bounty in the later nineteenth century; 5. Estates and management; Part X. The Commissioners and the Bounty in the Modern Church of England 1880?1948: 1. The last of tithe; 2. Housing and estates; 3. The church's business; 4. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; Maps; Tables.