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Peter's pence
     
Peter's pence
1 money given by Roman Catholics in many countries to help to pay for the running of the Vatican (=the offices of the Pope)
2 a tax of one penny which each person in England had to pay to the Pope until Henry VIII stopped it in 1534
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