 Toleration of dissent, withheld in Ireland till 1719, was then granted without the requirement of any doctrinal subscription.Next year a movement against subscription was begun in the General Synod of Ulster, culminating (1725) in the placing of the advocates of non-subscription, headed by John Abernethy, D.D., of Antrim into a presbytery by themselves.This Presbytery of Antrim was excluded (1726) from jurisdiction, though not from communion.