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the Dissenters of the hardships they were under , of which they often complained , or to comply in , but their continuance , to which they never could be prevailed with , to consent , or agree .
" And yet the dissenters , having such fair warning given them before hand 3 upon occasion of what had been done , of the same n&ture formerly , might very well be allowed to be the more
cautious of publishing the matter now ; and yet , thought it became them to receive what was so freely offered them , with greatthankfulness , both
to God and his Majesty . Nor could we be forgetful of Dr . Owen ' s having also received a thousand guineas , from king Charles the Second , to distribute among those dissenters , who had suffered most
by the severities of his reign . ( See Memoirs of the Life of Dr . Owen , prefixed to his volume of Sermons , printed in 1721 , p . 29 , 30 . ) For receiving which he also was reflected on afterwards , though we thought v&ry undeservedly .
r We could not hut at the same time very well remember , when Dr , Williams , in the reign of Queen Anne , and while the Lord Oxford had the ascendant , refused to receive a thousand pound , that was offered him , as from her Ma .
jesty , to distribute among the dissenters ; which gift was not clogged with any condition . He ( though he acted with the integrity of his heart , ) was censured by many , as depriving a number ,
that needed help , of the benefit they might this way have had . And not knowing how things in time might turn round , we were not willing , if this offer made us should come to be known , to expose ourselves to a like censure . Nor
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could we indeed see why we might not thankfully accept of such an help as this , here in England , as well as our brethren , in the north
of Ireland ; who , in the year 1690 , had a grant from King William of twelve hundred a year , to be paid by quarterly payments— - ( see Mr . Kilpatrick ' s Historical Essay on the Loyalty of Presbyte-i
rians , p . 397 . ) which ^ notwithstanding all the complaints that have been made of it by their back friends , ( and particularly by the Irish Parliament , who , in 1703 , voted this , an unnecessary branch
of the establishment , ) hath been continued ever since , with an addition , in the reign of Queen Anne , of eight hundred a year , for the south of Ireland , in which there are fewer meetings and fewer
ministers , than in the north ; in soliciting for which , I must own that I myself very freely joined with worthy Mr . Joseph Boyse , ( who was then in London ) in an
earnest application to my old acquaintance , the Earl of Sunderland , for his interest . Nor would it be an easy thing , to give a good and substantial reason , why we , that are dissenters in England ,
and excluded from the emoluments of the national chtirch , may not as warrantably receive a thoti 3 and pound a year , from the government , as our Presbyterian brethren in Scotland do , ( according to the current and uncontradicted
account , in our public newspapers , ) in order to the promoting Christian knowledge in their Highlands . u I therefore here give hints of these things , that they may be considered , if this bounty of George the First , to us and our brethren should come to be known hereafter . "
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History of the Regium Donum * 323
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1811, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2417/page/3/
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