Brewer's: Bounty

Queen Anne's Bounty. The produce of the first-fruits and tenths due to the Crown, made over by Queen Anne to a corporation established in the year 1704, for the purpose of augmenting church livings under 50 a year.

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