Queen Anne's Bounty, a fund established in 1704 for the augmentation of the incomes of the poorer clergy, the amount of which for distribution in 1890 was £176,896; it was the revenue from a tax on the Church prior to the Reformation, and which after that was appropriated by the Crown.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Quedlinburg * Queen Charlotte Islands