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A Sketch of the History of the Regium Donum, and Parliamentary Grant, to Poor Dissenting Ministers of England and Wales: With a Vindication of the Distributors and Recipients from the Charge of Political Subservicency. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing a Brief Statement of the Regium Donum
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onwards, there had been earlier royal donations to Dissenting clergymen, but political motives were suspected, and a proposed grant of £1,000 pa by Queen Anne was declined. The Regium Donum was originally not publicised, and one eighteenth-century critic saw it as a secret bribe to Dissenters to
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The English Regium Donum was instituted in 1723, originally £500 pa to allow the payment of pensions of widows of Dissenting Ministers, but later increased to £1,000 pa to also cover augmentation of income of living ministers. From
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livings, also added another £800 pa to assist Presbyterian clergy in the rest of Ireland (an offer of similar assistance to English Dissenting Ministers was declined). The
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The Irish Regium Donum originated in a grant of £1,200 pa to Presbyterian clergy in the north of Ireland made by
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resulted in the Regium Donum becoming a grant voted by Parliament, rather than a charge upon the
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and Parliamentary Grant to Poor Dissenting Ministers by the Trustees
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donation, but it later became an annual grant voted by Parliament.
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in 1690 as a reward for the loyalty of Presbyterians during
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clergy. The money originally came from the monarch's
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