There are two good postings on the subject of disestablishment of the Church of England in England: http://www.libdemvoice.org/breaking-antidisestablishmentarian-times-and-telegraph-reveal-new-danger-posed-by-150-yearold-liberal-pledge-for-separation-of-church-and-state-39501.html and http://lordsoftheblog.net/2014/04/25/money-not-morals/.
Coincidentally, we have just passed the bicentenary of Angela Burdett-Coutts, a great patron of the Church of England. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography relates that "Her will stipulated that all her Church of England endowments would be nullified in the event of its disestablishment." I wonder if over a hundred years after her death this would still be significant.
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