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Peter's pence in the Roman Catholic Church, the annual voluntary laymen's contribution to the support of the pope. Formerly Peter's pence was a yearly tax of a penny levied by the Holy See on every household in England and elsewhere. The name derives from the fact that the Holy See is called the see of Peter.

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Peter's Pence, also ‘Rome-Scot’, formerly an ecclesiastical tax in England paid to the Pope. First paid by King Offa (d.796), it was a levy on all but the poorest houses, commuted in the 12th cent. to an annual sum. It was abolished in 1534. After the restoration of the RC hierarchy in 1850, the bishops agreed to resume regularly constituted contributions to Rome and from the 1860s Peter's Pence was collected on an informal diocesan basis, which received official sanction in 1871.

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