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Show Earliest Peter's Pence. In 12C1, the Norway bishop induced the Greenlanders to contribute both men and money to the deliverance of the Holy Land, and from that time we have frequent notices of the collection col-lection of the tithes ar.d Peter Pence. : In 1276, the archbishop of Drontheim. who had been appointed the official collector of the Holy See, petitioned Pope John XXI, to be dispensed from ; taking up the collection in Gardar, affirming af-firming that it would take him five years to fulfill that mission. In 1279, Pope Nicholas III gave the archbishop extraordinary powers to delegate clerks to take up such collections in the diocese of Gardar. From a Bull of Martin IV, in 1282. we know that the Peter Pence was paid in hides of cattle and sins, and whale's teeth, which were exchanged for money in Norway. These cattle hides must have come from the continent further south. After the council of Venice, 1311, a general gen-eral collection was ordered, and the bishop of Gardar, Arnius, returned to his see. in 1315, to take it up. From that date down to 141. we have fre-duent fre-duent mention of the diocese of Gardar Gar-dar and from the increase of the fiscal "books of the Holy See we can. judge of the increase of its Catholic population. i- |