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Peter to pay Paul
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Where does the expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul" come from?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Robbing Peter to pay Paul On December 17th, 1550, the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster, was advanced to the dignity of a cathedral by letters patent; but ten years later it was joined to the diocese of London again, and many of its estates appropriated to the repairs of St. Paul's Cathedral. (Winkle: Cathedrals.)
�Tanquam siquis crucifigeret Paulum ut redimeret Petrum.� (Twelfth century.)
�It was not desirable to rob St. Peter's altar in order to build one to St. Paul.�- Viglius: Com. Dec. Denarii, i. 9 (1569).
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