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 maneʓum landum mare land-riht arist to cyniʓes ʓebanne … ælmes-feoh & cyric-sceat.
1691. Blount, Law Dict., Almsfooh, 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. 193 (L.). He strictly commands payment of tithe, cyricsceat and almsfee.
