scot and lotadj.

Brit.

/ˌskɒt (ə)n(d) ˈlɒt/, U.S.

/ˈˌskɑt ən ˈlɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: scot and lot at scot n.² 2a.

Etymology: < scot and lot at scot n.² 2a (see lot n. 7a).

Now historical.

1. Of a man: that pays scot and lot (see scot n.² 2a); eligible to vote on account of this payment; (by extension) respectable, upstanding.

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1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature 115 Such is his Deformed Excellence, 'Twould scare both Scot-and-Lot-men out of sence, Should he appear upon Election.

1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 291 Protogenes, Historians note, Liv'd there, a Burgess Scot and Lot.

1725 Let. Citizen to Member of Parl. 52 In common Acceptation, he that pays to the Church and Poor, is a Scot and Lot Man, and consequently a good Voter.

1796 St. James's Chron. 2–4 June R. Adair and Lord Preston, tendered 28 Scot-and-Lot Voters, who were rejected.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. iv. 373 This is really too flattering, interrupted the scot and lot gentleman.

1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1059 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 The Commonalty are the scot and lot inhabitants.

1865 Liverpool Mercury 12 Oct. 5/7 May we not regret that potwallopers, and scot and lot men, and freemen then lost their privilege?

1958 C. Hill Society & Puritanism Pre-Revolutionary Eng. (1997) xiii. 406 The pamphleteer of 1641 who thought that lecturers should be chosen only by scot and lot householders, not by the poor.

2002 D. W. Hayton House of Commons I. 117 A degree of political awareness and sophistication among at least some inhabitant, potwalloping, and scot-and-lot electors.

2. British Politics.

a. Of a constituency (esp. a borough): that restricts the franchise to men paying scot and lot.Abolished by the 1832 Reform Act.

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1792 T. H. B. Oldfield Entire Hist. Boroughs Great Brit. III. 229 Even the poor-rates in scot-and-lot boroughs are corrupted into engines of despotism.

1832 Morning Chron. 22 Aug. Whether voters, disfranchised in Scot and Lot Boroughs, can vote as ten-pound householders.

1850 Times 1 Mar. 4/6 The Reform Act, on the basis of the original ‘scot and lot’ constituency, extended the franchise of the boroughs to the ten-pound house-holders rated for the poor.

1912 J. L. Hammond & B. Hammond Village Labourer (new ed.) i. 8 The Scot and lot boroughs, of which there were 59, ranged from Gatton, with 135 inhabitants, to Westminster and Northampton.

2002 D. W. Hayton House of Commons I. 107 Of the larger scot-and-lot constituencies only four exceeded 500.

b. Designating a voting system in which men who pay scot and lot are enfranchised; of, relating to, or according to this system.

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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective] > type of electoral system

scot and lot1818

plural1839

preferential1870

uninominal1881

second ballot1910

first past the post1914

1818 Brit. Rev. May 289 The author's penetrating vision then discovers to him a scot and lot system of representation until the reign of Henry VI.

1821 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 10 Mar. Mr. Lockhart was against scot and lot voting.

1853 Times 17 Nov. 8/2 I would extend it to every occupier, and establish a scot and lot franchise.

1887 Leeds Mercury 24 Dec. 8/6 The scot and lot vote, if not equal to our household suffrage, must have approached very near it.

1948 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 8 63 In 1807, Sir Francis Burdett had topped the poll..in..Westminster, whose scot-and-lot franchise entitled all ratepayers to the vote.

2006 C. Evans Debating Revol. i. 9 The 12000-strong ‘scot and lot’ electorate of Westminster..included shoals of tradesmen and shopkeepers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> as lemmas

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.

†2. transitive. To assess (a person or property) for municipal taxes and charges; to subject to taxation; to tax; (in Kent and Sussex) spec. to impose a tax on (a householder on the marshes and levels, or his or her property) for the maintenance of drainage systems, flood defences, etc. Also in to scot and lot (a person or property). Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > tax (a person or thing)

layc1330

tailc1330

taxc1330

scot1432

patise1436

sess1465

task1483

assessa1513

cessa1513

lot1543

toust1565

imposea1618

talliate1762

1432 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 131 (MED) Ye be scotted and assessed in the some of xx li. toward the reparacon of the walles and clensyng of the diches of the Cite.

1646 J. Smith To Honourable House of Commons: Humble Remonstr. 2 All those houses & lands which were in danger of the sea, were taxed and scotted for the making and maintaining the works against the sea.

1690 S. Jeake Jr. Diary 2 July in Astrol. Diary (1988) 203 My scots and lots..to the aforesaid Commonalty [sc. Rye] shall well and truly pay when I shall be thereunto scotted or lotted, so help me God.

c1750 in Catal. Arch. All Souls' Coll. (1877) 226 List of owners of land scotted to Lydd Wall.

1774 E. Jacob Hist. Faversham 28 All which lands and tenements are geldable by the abbot, and scotted and lotted as well as ourselves, for the service of our lord the king.

1841 W. Mildmay Method & Rule Proc. Elections London 95 To be Scotted and Lotted as an inhabitant are the conditions imposed upon the reformation of the constituency of the wards.

1864 M. A. Lower in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 16 253 As low lands drained at a public or common charge are still said to be ‘scotted’.

3. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. to scot and lot (also to lot and scot) and variants: to contribute to the municipal taxes and charges paid by burgesses according to their means; (hence) to participate in the duties and obligations of a burgess. Cf. scat v.²

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c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 153 Ȝif [printed zif] ony..wil nott been lottyng and scottyng [Fr. escotaunt] ne helpyng to the toun,..thanne be his fraunchise..repelyd.

1467 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1467/1/4 Na gudis under the ourlop to scot nor lot with tha gudis in case thai be castin.

a1500 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 138 (MED) I shall lote and scot with my brethren of the Gild, whether I dwell in the town frauncheses or in the Bishop Fee or in any other place.

1531 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 53 Because the saidis vnfremen nowthir scottis lottis, walkis nor wardis within our said fredome.

1583 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 48 Gif ony wedow buy and sell within burgh with the nichtbouris, sche sall scot and lot with thame in taxatiounis and utheris helpis.

1616 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 56 Sic as hes nocht hors sall scot and lott with the toun for thair p[ar]t [sc. of the small customs].

a1714 in Misc. New Spalding Club (1908) II. 367 I shall Scot, Lot, Watch, Wake and Ward with the inhabitants of this burgh.

1876 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. 500/1 A testimonial, in Latin..stating..that from his goods he scotted and lotted, and bore his burden along with others.

1904 J. Tait Mediæval Manch. 97 The charters of Cardiff and other Welsh boroughs forbad any but persons ‘scotting and lotting’ with the burgesses and members of the Merchant Gild to keep an open shop.

单词	scot and lot
释义	scot and lotadj. Brit. /ˌskɒt (ə)n(d) ˈlɒt/, U.S. /ˈˌskɑt ən ˈlɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: scot and lot at scot n.² 2a. Etymology: < scot and lot at scot n.² 2a (see lot n. 7a). Now historical. 1. Of a man: that pays scot and lot (see scot n.² 2a); eligible to vote on account of this payment; (by extension) respectable, upstanding. ΚΠ 1686 H. Grenfield God in Creature 115 Such is his Deformed Excellence, 'Twould scare both Scot-and-Lot-men out of sence, Should he appear upon Election. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 291 Protogenes, Historians note, Liv'd there, a Burgess Scot and Lot. 1725 Let. Citizen to Member of Parl. 52 In common Acceptation, he that pays to the Church and Poor, is a Scot and Lot Man, and consequently a good Voter. 1796 St. James's Chron. 2–4 June R. Adair and Lord Preston, tendered 28 Scot-and-Lot Voters, who were rejected. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. iv. 373 This is really too flattering, interrupted the scot and lot gentleman. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 1059 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 The Commonalty are the scot and lot inhabitants. 1865 Liverpool Mercury 12 Oct. 5/7 May we not regret that potwallopers, and scot and lot men, and freemen then lost their privilege? 1958 C. Hill Society & Puritanism Pre-Revolutionary Eng. (1997) xiii. 406 The pamphleteer of 1641 who thought that lecturers should be chosen only by scot and lot householders, not by the poor. 2002 D. W. Hayton House of Commons I. 117 A degree of political awareness and sophistication among at least some inhabitant, potwalloping, and scot-and-lot electors. 2. British Politics. a. Of a constituency (esp. a borough): that restricts the franchise to men paying scot and lot.Abolished by the 1832 Reform Act. ΚΠ 1792 T. H. B. Oldfield Entire Hist. Boroughs Great Brit. III. 229 Even the poor-rates in scot-and-lot boroughs are corrupted into engines of despotism. 1832 Morning Chron. 22 Aug. Whether voters, disfranchised in Scot and Lot Boroughs, can vote as ten-pound householders. 1850 Times 1 Mar. 4/6 The Reform Act, on the basis of the original ‘scot and lot’ constituency, extended the franchise of the boroughs to the ten-pound house-holders rated for the poor. 1912 J. L. Hammond & B. Hammond Village Labourer (new ed.) i. 8 The Scot and lot boroughs, of which there were 59, ranged from Gatton, with 135 inhabitants, to Westminster and Northampton. 2002 D. W. Hayton House of Commons I. 107 Of the larger scot-and-lot constituencies only four exceeded 500. b. Designating a voting system in which men who pay scot and lot are enfranchised; of, relating to, or according to this system. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective] > type of electoral system scot and lot1818 plural1839 preferential1870 uninominal1881 second ballot1910 first past the post1914 1818 Brit. Rev. May 289 The author's penetrating vision then discovers to him a scot and lot system of representation until the reign of Henry VI. 1821 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 10 Mar. Mr. Lockhart was against scot and lot voting. 1853 Times 17 Nov. 8/2 I would extend it to every occupier, and establish a scot and lot franchise. 1887 Leeds Mercury 24 Dec. 8/6 The scot and lot vote, if not equal to our household suffrage, must have approached very near it. 1948 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 8 63 In 1807, Sir Francis Burdett had topped the poll..in..Westminster, whose scot-and-lot franchise entitled all ratepayers to the vote. 2006 C. Evans Debating Revol. i. 9 The 12000-strong ‘scot and lot’ electorate of Westminster..included shoals of tradesmen and shopkeepers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas scot and lot 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. ΘΚΠ 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. extracted from scotn.² to scot and lot (a person or property) †2. transitive. To assess (a person or property) for municipal taxes and charges; to subject to taxation; to tax; (in Kent and Sussex) spec. to impose a tax on (a householder on the marshes and levels, or his or her property) for the maintenance of drainage systems, flood defences, etc. Also in to scot and lot (a person or property). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > taxation > levy (a tax) [verb (transitive)] > tax (a person or thing) layc1330 tailc1330 taxc1330 scot1432 patise1436 sess1465 task1483 assessa1513 cessa1513 lot1543 toust1565 imposea1618 talliate1762 1432 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 131 (MED) Ye be scotted and assessed in the some of xx li. toward the reparacon of the walles and clensyng of the diches of the Cite. 1646 J. Smith To Honourable House of Commons: Humble Remonstr. 2 All those houses & lands which were in danger of the sea, were taxed and scotted for the making and maintaining the works against the sea. 1690 S. Jeake Jr. Diary 2 July in Astrol. Diary (1988) 203 My scots and lots..to the aforesaid Commonalty [sc. Rye] shall well and truly pay when I shall be thereunto scotted or lotted, so help me God. c1750 in Catal. Arch. All Souls' Coll. (1877) 226 List of owners of land scotted to Lydd Wall. 1774 E. Jacob Hist. Faversham 28 All which lands and tenements are geldable by the abbot, and scotted and lotted as well as ourselves, for the service of our lord the king. 1841 W. Mildmay Method & Rule Proc. Elections London 95 To be Scotted and Lotted as an inhabitant are the conditions imposed upon the reformation of the constituency of the wards. 1864 M. A. Lower in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 16 253 As low lands drained at a public or common charge are still said to be ‘scotted’. extracted from scotv. to scot and lot (also to lot and scot) 3. intransitive. Chiefly Scottish. to scot and lot (also to lot and scot) and variants: to contribute to the municipal taxes and charges paid by burgesses according to their means; (hence) to participate in the duties and obligations of a burgess. Cf. scat v.² ΚΠ c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 153 Ȝif [printed zif] ony..wil nott been lottyng and scottyng [Fr. escotaunt] ne helpyng to the toun,..thanne be his fraunchise..repelyd. 1467 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1467/1/4 Na gudis under the ourlop to scot nor lot with tha gudis in case thai be castin. a1500 in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 138 (MED) I shall lote and scot with my brethren of the Gild, whether I dwell in the town frauncheses or in the Bishop Fee or in any other place. 1531 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 53 Because the saidis vnfremen nowthir scottis lottis, walkis nor wardis within our said fredome. 1583 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 48 Gif ony wedow buy and sell within burgh with the nichtbouris, sche sall scot and lot with thame in taxatiounis and utheris helpis. 1616 in A. M. Munro Rec. Old Aberdeen (1899) I. 56 Sic as hes nocht hors sall scot and lott with the toun for thair p[ar]t [sc. of the small customs]. a1714 in Misc. New Spalding Club (1908) II. 367 I shall Scot, Lot, Watch, Wake and Ward with the inhabitants of this burgh. 1876 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. 500/1 A testimonial, in Latin..stating..that from his goods he scotted and lotted, and bore his burden along with others. 1904 J. Tait Mediæval Manch. 97 The charters of Cardiff and other Welsh boroughs forbad any but persons ‘scotting and lotting’ with the burgesses and members of the Merchant Gild to keep an open shop. extracted from scotv. < adj.1686 as lemmas
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