ˈRome-penny Now Hist.
Forms: 1 Rompæni(ᵹ, -peniᵹ, -peneᵹ, 2 -peni; 4–5 Rome peny (5 Roome, Rume), 9 Rome-penny (7 dial. Ream-).
[f. Rome n. 2 + penny.]
= Peter's-penny.
| a 1000 in Cockayne The Shrine 208 Siᵹ ælc Rompeniᵹ aᵹifen be Petres mæsse dæᵹe. a 1000 Laws Northumbrian Priests lvii. (Liebermann), We willaþ þæt ælc Rompæni beo ᵹelæst be Petres mæssan to ðam bisceop stole. a 1023 Wulfstan Hom. (1883) 113 Sulhælmessan and rompeneᵹas and cyricsceattas. a 1193 Benedict of Peterborough Chron. (Rolls) II. 226 Episcopus Dunelmensis jura ecclesiæ Eboraci, scilicet Le Rom-peni..detinuit. 1377 Rolls of Parlt. III. 21/1 La charge de le Denier Seint Piere, appelle Rome-peny. a 1400 Chron. J. Brompton in Twysden Decem Script. (1652) 1235 Scilicet de Rume-peny, id est, de denario sancti Petri. c 1470 Hardyng Chron. xcix. viii, At his death he gaue to Roome eche yere The Roome pence, through Westsex all about. Ibid. ciii. vi, Offa [gave] through Mers the Rome peny Vnto the Churche of Rome. 1674 Ray N.C. Words, Ream-penny; q. Rome-penny... ‘He reckons up his ream-pennies’, that is, tells all his faults. 1889 Archaeol. Rev. Aug. 43 It was called Rome-scot, Rome-penny, Hearth-penny. |