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SJCR/SJAR/1/1/Metcalfe/4/3
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- 1521-1529 (Creation)
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File
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5 items, parchment
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Reciepts of Silvester Darius and Peter Vannes, papal collectors for Peter's Pence to Nicholas Metcalfe as Archdeacon of Rochester.
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- Latin
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Peter's Pence (or Denarii Sancti Petri and "Alms of St Peter")[1] are donations or payments made directly to the Holy See of the Catholic Church. The practice began under the Saxons in England and spread through Europe. Both before and after the Norman conquest the practice varied by time and place; initially, it was done as a pious contribution, whereas later it was required by various rulers, and collected, more like a tax. Though formally discontinued in England at the time of the Reformation, a post-Reformation payment of uncertain characteristics is seen in some English manors into the 19th century.
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Former ref.
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Name access points
- Leo X, Pope (Subject)
- Adrian VI, Pope (Subject)
- Clement VII, Pope (Subject)