The chair at Cambridge originally had a stipend of £40 per year (which is still paid to the incumbent by Trinity College), later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.
[citation needed] (Sources: Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900 and supplements; and the Oxford University Calendar) According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Devinity" at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon:[21] The Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies".
[23] The title "Regius Professor" was specified in 1761 by letters patent of George III.
[23][24] The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head.
[26][27] It reignited in the 1960s, after which vacancies in the School of Divinity went unfilled,[26][27] including the Regius Professorship in 1982.