Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PE'TER-PENCE
PET'ER-EL, or PE'TRELPE'TER-WORT
PE'TER-PENCE, n.
A tax or tribute formerly paid by the English people to the pope; being a penny for every house, payable at Lammas-day. It was called also Romescot. – Hall.
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