_Smoke Money_ (Vol. ii., pp. 120. 174.).--Sir Roger Twisden (_Historical
Vindication of the Church of England_, chap. iv. p. 77.) observes--
"King Henry, 153¾, took them (Peter's pence) so absolutely away, as
though Queen Mary repealed that Act, and Paulus Quartus dealt earnestly
with her agents in Rome for restoring the use of them, yet I cannot
find that they were ever gathered and sent thither during her time but
where some monasteries did answer them to the Pope, and did therefore
collect the tax, that in process of time became, as by custom, paid to
that house which being after derived to the crown, and from thence, by
grant, to others, with as ample {345} profits as the religious persons
did possess them, I conceive they are to this day paid as an appendant
to the said manors, by the name of _Smoke Money_.