Black Book
.A book exposing abuses in Church and State, which furnished much material for political reform in the early part of the present century. (See Black Books.)
⁂ Amherst speaks of the Proctor’s black book, and tells us that no one can proceed to a degree whose name is found there. (1726.) It also appears that each regiment keeps a black book or record of ill-behaviour.
Black Book of the Admiralty. An old navy code, said to have been compiled in the reign of Edward III.
