Penceless Peter

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  • Peter's Pence: tarditionally, payment from England made voluntarily to the Roman Catholic Church; now a once-yearly colelcyion for the Vatican from Catholic mass-goers
  • penceless: meaning no money collected
  • "Pierce Penniless' Supplication to the Devil": a satiric panphlet (1592) by English author Thomas Nashe