Churchesset
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
CHURCHSET, CIRSET, kirkset, or 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, § 28.
An annual tribute paid to the church in grain or other product, census vel trihutum ecclesiae, frumenti trihutum. Spelman. voc. "Cirset;" Lindenbrog; Domesday Book. Sometimes written chirchsed, and translated "churchseed," semen ecclesiae. Fleta, ubi supra; Co. Litt. 88b. But the proper spelling, according to Spelman, is cvricset, or ciricsceat.