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c1250 Bracton's Note Bk. (1887) III. 499 (MED) Attornatus burgensium dicit quod ipsi sunt ad scot et ad loht in eadem uilla.

1320 Rolls of Parl.: Edward II (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1320 SC 9/23 §52. m. 6^v Quod cum villa de Pevenese..fuerit..in lote et scote cum illa villa de Hastingg'.

1431–2 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 131 All maner fre men of the said Cite..shull be in lott and scotte and perteners to all maner charges of the Cite whan thei be duly requyred.

1494 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 189 I shalbe redy at scotte and lotte, and all my duties truly pay and doo.

1749 J. Wood Ess. Descr. Bath (ed. 2) II. iv. viii. 397 All Persons dwelling and inhabiting in the said City of Bath..are to be at Scot and Lot with the aforesaid Citizens.

1827 H. Blackstone Rep. Cases Courts of Common Pleas 1788–91 (ed. 4) I. 206/2 The jury..found that a freeman of London is not exempt from toll unless he be resident inhabitant, and in scot and lot.

1898 C. A. Markham Rec. Borough Northampton 488/2 Those holding at Lot and Scot were those who paid certain general contributions.

1918 R. F. Seybolt Colonial Citizen New York City 33 If a citizen remained in Scot and Lot, he might absent himself from the city indefinitely.

1996 J. Webb Town Finances Elizabethan Ipswich (1996) Introd. 3 More important was the delivery to the treasurer of money collected in each ward or parish from those ‘at scot and lot’.