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ˈRome-penny Now Hist.
Forms: 1 Rompæni(ᵹ, -peniᵹ, -peneᵹ, 2 -peni; 4–5 Rome peny (5 Roome, Rume), 9 Rome-penny (7 dial. Ream-).
[f. Rome n. 2 + penny.]
= Peter's-penny.
a1000in Cockayne The Shrine 208 Siᵹ ælc Rompeniᵹ aᵹifen be Petres mæsse dæᵹe. a1000Laws Northumbrian Priests lvii. (Liebermann), We willaþ þæt ælc Rompæni beo ᵹelæst be Petres mæssan to ðam bisceop stole. a1023Wulfstan Hom. (1883) 113 Sulhælmessan and rompeneᵹas and cyricsceattas. a1193Benedict of Peterborough Chron. (Rolls) II. 226 Episcopus Dunelmensis jura ecclesiæ Eboraci, scilicet Le Rom-peni..detinuit. 1377Rolls of Parlt. III. 21/1 La charge de le Denier Seint Piere, appelle Rome-peny. a1400Chron. J. Brompton in Twysden Decem Script. (1652) 1235 Scilicet de Rume-peny, id est, de denario sancti Petri. c1470Hardyng Chron. xcix. viii, At his death he gaue to Roome eche yere The Roome pence, through Westsex all about. Ibid. ciii. vi, Offa [gave] through Mers the Rome peny Vnto the Churche of Rome. 1674Ray N.C. Words, Ream-penny; q. Rome-penny... ‘He reckons up his ream-pennies’, that is, tells all his faults. 1889Archaeol. Rev. Aug. 43 It was called Rome-scot, Rome-penny, Hearth-penny. |