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lot and scot
a. Duty paid towards municipal expenses; a local or municipal tax. Frequently in collocation with lot n. 7a, esp. in scot and lot (earlier lot and scot): municipal taxes and charges paid by burgesses in proportion to their means, (in later use) sometimes used as a qualification for enfranchisement. Cf. scot and lot adj., shot and lot at shot n.1 24. Now historical.scot and lot often appears in idiomatic expressions: see Phrases.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > other local or municipal dues or taxes
shot and lotlOE
burghal-pennyc1177
scot1227
scat1577
turnsilver1578
rogue money1585
town charge1592
marshalsea1657
by-law1691
tensership1701
statute money1792
corporate tax1824
UBR1985
1227 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 211 Si aliquis natiuus alicuius in prefato Burgo manserit,..et fuerit in prefata Gilda et Hansa et loth et Scoth cum eisdem Burgensibus.
1348 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 110 (MED) Cives Herfordie possunt recipere in gildam suam Gallicos..ita quod..solvant Loth & Scoth cum dictis Civibus supradictis.
1462–3 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1876) App. 523 in Parl. Papers (C. 1432) XL. 1 Alle foreneres fischermenne beyng and fyschyng here..shall pay to the commone scotte of here fysche merchaunt.
1522 in A. Maxwell Old Dundee (1891) 32 On getting the scot and lot of the merchants [he will] answer for three pounds gret to Sanct James' altar.
1531 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 3 §1 Diuers and sundry Cesses, Scots, and Taxes.
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Cloacarium, skot [1545 scotte] in a towne for clensynge of commune draughtes.
1646 J. Benbrigge Vsvra Accommodata 15 So they [sc. money lenders] may escape, or at least be eased in their Scots and Taxes.
1681 D. N. Let. from Old Common-council-man 1 The Votes of such as pay no Scot, nor bear no Lot.
1724 J. Trueman Exam. & Resol. Two Questions 14 It can by no Means..be concluded..that a Freeman before he votes, must pay all Scots.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Escot, a tax paid in boroughs and corporations towards the support of the community, which is called scot and lot.
1831 John Bull 28 Aug. 162/2 As to the present proposition, to extend the right of voting to payers of scot and lot, he could not agree to it.
1860 Act 23 & 24 Vict. c. 51 All Rates, Scots, and Taxes levied by Courts or Commissioners of Sewers.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvi. 151 She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay.
1961 V. Pearl London & Outbreak Puritan Revol. i. 32 They were to be exempt from the fifteenths of Common Council taxation, from the burdens of scot, and from watch and ward.
2000 R. Britnell in D. M. Palliser Cambr. Urban Hist. Brit. I. xiv. 333 Burgesses were subject to the payment of scot and lot, tallage, and murage to maintain the status and the fabric of their town.
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