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- In 1806 he was appointed distributor of the English " regium donum ".
- The Irish Regium Donum was discontinued in 1869, when the Anglican Church of Ireland was disestablished.
- In 1723 he was one of the original distributors of the English " regium donum ".
- Adair was one of the negotiators in 1672 for the first regium donum granted to presbyterians by Charles II.
- In 1787 9 Cameron got a double portion of " regium donum "; his means were always very small.
- William, when in Ulster in 1690, appointed Adair and his son William two of the trustees for distributing his regium donum.
- Rees in 1837 was appointed by government as principal receiver of the English " regium donum ", on the nomination of the three denominations.
- Reform of royal finances by Pitt the Younger saw the " Regium Donum " become a grant voted by Parliament, rather than a charge upon the Civil List.
- In 1723 the " regium donum ", initially a grant to support Irish Presbyterians, became a national subsidy, and subsequently dissenting academies were more generally accepted.
- He was also one of the first distributors ( 1723 ) of the English " regium donum ", and a trustee ( 1726 ) of the Barnes bequest.
- There was growing opposition by organised Dissent; because of this, the government announced in 1851 that the " Regium Donum " would not be voted in subsequent years.
- On the death of Robert Black in 1817, the agency for the " regium donum " was offered to him, but he put forward the claims of another.
- In 1870 he was re-elected moderator, and took an active part in settling the financial affairs of the church in connection with the withdrawal of the " Regium Donum ".
- A further sum of nearly ?, 000, 000 was distributed between Maynooth College, deprived of its annual grant, and the Presbyterian Church deprived of the Regium Donum, the latter getting twice as much as the former.
- The English " Regium Donum " was instituted in 1723, originally ?00 pa to allow the payment of pensions of widows of Dissenting Ministers, but later increased to ?000pa to also cover augmentation of income of living ministers.
- The Irish " Regium Donum " originated in a grant of ?200 pa to Presbyterian clergy in Northern Ireland made by William III in 1690 as a reward for the loyalty of Presbyterians during the war in Ireland following the Glorious Revolution.
- The " Regium Donum " was originally not publicised, and one eighteenth-century critic saw it as a secret bribe to Dissenters to support Sir Robert Walpole and to buy off any agitation against the civil disabilities of Dissenters ( eg the Test and Corporation Acts ).
- In 1672 he was helped the Presbyterian Church of Ireland, of which he was a member, by procuring for it the first grant of " regium donum ", which the church continued to enjoy until the passing of the Irish Church Act in 1869, with the exception of a short interval.
- In principle, this changed it from an ex gratia payment to a forced donation by taxpayers ( including those opposed to the religious views of those supported ) : the " Regium Donum " was therefore henceforth opposed ( on the grounds of consistency ) by some advocates of the disestablishment of the Church of England.
- It was expected that Cooke would be the first president of the Queen's College; this office was conferred instead on the Rev . Pooley Shuldman Henry; to Cooke was given the agency for the distribution of Regium Donum, a post worth ?20 per annum, and on the opening of the Queen's College in 1849 he was appointed Presbyterian dean of residence.