_Ciric-Sceat, or Church-scot._--Can any of your readers explain the
following passage from Canute's Letter to the Archbishops, &c. of
England, A.D. 1031. (_Wilkins Conc._ t. i. p. 298):--
"Et in festivitate Sancti Martini primitæ seminum ad ecclesiam,
sub cujus parochia quisque degit, quæ Anglice _Cure scet_
nominatur."