ˈalms-fee
The payment also called Peter's pence, and Rome-scot, anciently made to the pope.
| a 1000 in Thorpe Anc. Laws I. 432 Eac of maneᵹum landum mare land-riht arist to cyniᵹes ᵹebanne..ælmes-feoh & cyric-sceat. 1691 Blount Law Dict., Almsfeoh, or Aelmesfeoh, that is, Peter-Pence, anciently paid in England on the first of August, and given by King Ina. 1848 Kemble Saxons in Eng. ii. x. (L.), He strictly commands payment of tithe, cyricsceat and almsfee. |