Churchesset

Churchset, Cirset, Kirkset, Chirset.

In old English law

A certain portion or measure of wheat, anciently paid to the church on St. Martin's day; and which, according to Fleta, was paid as well in the time of the Britons as of the English. Fleta, lib.

1, c. 47.

An annual tnbute paid to the church in grain or other product; {census vel tributum ecclesia; frumenti tributum.) Spelman, voc.

Cirset.

Lindenbrog, and Domesday, cited ibid. Sometimes written chirchsed, and translated churchseed, (semen ecclesioe.) Fleta, uh. sup.

Co. l Att. 88 b.

But the proper spelling, according to Spelman, is ciricscet, or ciricsceat, (q. v.)