Brewer's: Regium Donum

(Latin). An annual grant of public money to the Presbyterian, Independent, and Baptist ministers of Ireland. It began in 1672, and was commuted in 1869.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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