Obs. exc. Hist. [WAX sb.1 + SHOT sb.1 OE. had weaxʓescot (Wulfstan): whence the form wax-scot in 18–19th cent. Dicts.] A customary payment made for the maintenance of lights in churches.
15[?]. Eng. Gilds (1870), 190, marg. To paye for the mayntenyng off the wax and lights, iiij. d. [marg., in later hand, ‘Waxshote’].
15[?]. in Proc. Soc. Antiq., Ser. II. XIV. 232. Every householder payeth … for Wax-shot and Gardens two pence.
1664. [see MAINPORT].
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Waxshot or Wax-scot.
1829. [J. Chambers], Gen. Hist. Norfolk, II. 968, note. Ceragium, or waxshot, was the term used for money expended in church lights.
