Peter pence

Variant of Peter's pence

Peter's pence definition

Peter's pence

  1. an annual tax, orig. of one penny, paid to the papal see by certain English property owners before the Reformation
  2. an annual voluntary donation made by Catholics everywhere to the papal see
Also Peter pence

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