Peter's pence (also known as Peter-pence or Rome scot) was a papal tax of one penny payable to the see of Rome on the feast of St peter and first collected in England in 740. First the tax was collected from every family, later it was restricted to those families possessing property worth thirty pence a year. The tax was abolished by Henry VIII. Research Peter's Pence
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