单词 | rome penny |
释义 | Rome pennyn. Now historical. An annual tax formerly paid in England, principally before the Reformation, to the papal see at Rome; = Peter's penny n. 1. Also in plural. Cf. Rome-scot n. 1. †to reckon up a person's Rome-pennies: to tell all his or her faults (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > payment to specific person > to the pope hearth-pennyOE Rome pennyOE Rome-scotOE hearth-silver1189 Peter's penny1252 OE Laws: Norðhymbra Preosta Lagu (Corpus Cambr.) lvii. §1. 384 We willað, þæt ælc Rompæni beo gelæst be Petres mæssan to ðam bisceopstole. OE Wulfstan Homily: To Eallum Folce (Tiber. A.iii) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 116 Sig ælc rompenig [OE Corpus Cambr. 419 heorðpening] agifen be Petres mæssedæge. OE Wulfstan Pastoral Let. (Hatton) (1957) 229 Eal..þæt ure yldran hwilum ær Gode behetan; ðæt is sulhælmessan & rompenegas & cyricsceattas. 1182 in Publ. Pipe Roll Soc. (1910) XXXI. 62 De c et xlj l. et viij s. et ix d. de Rompening. c1330 Short Metrical Chron. (Auch.) l. 1443 in PMLA (1931) 46 134/2 (MED) Of inglond he rered alok Of ich hous þat come out smoke, To rome ȝif a peni, y wis, þat rome peni [?1316 Royal Petres peny] cleped is. 1379 Rolls of Parl.: Richard II (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1379 §12. m. 7 Item, de les deniers appellez Rome-penies. a1450 (?a1350) in Surrey Archaeol. Soc. Coll. (1909) XXII. 130 (MED) j Romepeny atte lammasse & a henne. 1543 Chron. J. Hardyng f. xcix At his death, he gaue to Roome eche yere The Roome pence through Westsex all about. 1652 (?c1437) Chron. in R. Twysden Hist. Anglicanæ Scriptores X 1235 Scilicet de Rumepeny, id est, de denario sancti Petri. 1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech i. 6 That it might be declared by Parliament, whether the charge called Rome-penny, should be levied of the Commons, and paid to the Pope's Collector, or no. 1674 J. Ray N. Country Words Ream-penny; q. Rome-penny... ‘He reckons up his ream-pennies’, that is, tells all his faults. 1780 A. Bruce Free Thoughts on Toleration Popery 36 Peter pence or Rome-penny was a kind of yearly tribute paid to the See of Rome, and levied on every family in England. 1835 H. Soames Anglo-Saxon Church ii. 108 The payment of..the Rome-penny,..which continued to be remitted, with occasional interruptions, to the papal treasury, until the Reformation. 1913 Eng. Hist. Rev. 28 422 It tells us that the Rome-penny should be paid on 1 August, and that the penalty for default is sixty shillings and twelve-fold the sum due. a1967 F. M. Stenton in Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1970) xxxvi. 386 The landrica must pay Rome Penny..for a defaulting tunesman and take an ox from the defaulter. 2005 Archit. Hist. 48 39 The Northumbrian Priests' Law..assigned collection of the Rome penny to a mass priest and two trusty thegns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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