CHURCH-Scot, or CHURCHESSET, a payment, or contribution, by the Latin writers frequently called primitia seminum; being, at first, a certain measure of wheat, paid to the priest on St Martin's day, as the first-fruits of harvest. This was enjoined by the laws of king Malcolm IV. and Canute, c. 10. But after this, Church-scot came to signify a reserve of corn rent paid to the secular priests, or to the religious; and sometimes was taken in so general a sense as to include poultry, or any other provision that was paid in kind to the religious. See TITHES.