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    liberal toleration , approved them , selves faithful friends to the new dynasty * For the distance of relation to the throne , made it an act of electron , rather than hereditary succession , a kind of parliamentary grant to that bouse , as Protestant and nearest in blood ,

    and as affording the happiest prospects of maintaining the liberties of the country . With this , all the high-church party were greatly dissatisfied , and employed their utmost power and art to foment

    repeater ! rebellions against the House of Brunswick ; but , happily , their machinations were defeated . As the dissenters approved th . ems . el ves strong friends , the prime minister wished ta reward them

    for their loyalty , and , by a retaining fee , preserve them stedfast A considerable sum was , there - fore , annually lodged with the

    heads of the great divisions , the Presbyterians , the Independents and the Baptists , cajled Regium Donum , the Royal Bounty , to be distributed among the more

    necessitous ministers of their several congregations , according to the discretion of a number of princi pal ministers of those denominations * with whom this gift was intrusted , and by whom it is annually divided . " vol . iii . p .. 22 J *

    I have beard a different origin ascribed to the Regium Donwn . whm been said to have been a ^ promise , contrived by Wal-PQle to reconcile the dissenters to ^ continuance of the disabilities Created by the Test and Corpoiau t'onActs . ADJUTOR ,

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    Regium Donum * Sift , ^ The account gi ven of the Rvgium Vonuni y to which your corres-

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    pondent , Qitero , refers , ( p . 2 tf 5 . ) in the Protestant Dissenters Almanac , is far from being correct . It was not discreet to publish any account , and especially to give the names of the distributors , as it has occasioned some of them

    much additional trouble , by the applications they have received for a share of this money , which were too numerous before . But if an ? account must be given to the world , the writer should have taken care to be well informed as

    to matters of fact , in which he is grossly mistaken . He is so as to the sum itself , and equally so as to the names of the distributors * He has omittedsome who are of the

    fraternity , and he has mentioned two others who have no part or lot in the matter . I was very much surprised to see the names of Dan Taylorand JoAnEvansin the list . They can with no more propriety , be said to be distributors of the Royal Bounty than several others whom I could

    name , or , than yourself could be , if one of the receivers of it should put a few pounds into your hands for you to convey to such poor ministers in the country as you happened to be more connected with than himself . As to the *

    piece advertised by John Fell , " Achan ' s Golden Wedge / ' &c . it will be most charitable to that virulent antagonist of Mr . Farmer , to let the matter steep with hrn * and his adjutants in their graves , I ant not under Roy a i . Bounty Jnfiite n'c * .

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    ' Regium Donum . SlK , I am pteased with- the inquiries o £ youp correspondent , ( p . 22 ^ , ) on * the subject of tbei Regium Donum - to which my attention

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    Regium DonUf * . 271

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/15/