CHURCH-Scot, or Churchesfet, a payment or contribution, by the Latin writers frequently called primitive 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 TITHE.