Penceless Peter
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Jump to navigationJump to search- 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