Temporal Pillars
Queen Anne's Bounty, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the Church of England

Table of Contents

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.

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