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1835, Henry Soames, The Anglo-Saxon Church: Its History, Revenues, and General Character, London: John W. Parker, “Preface”, page xxvi:It is true that parochial collectors have long ceased from application for church-shot, light-shot, and plough-alms. Those who delight in throwing unworthy imputations upon the Church, may be at a loss to account for this forbearance. Such as would reason calmly upon known facts, will, probably, view the modern church-rate, raised for the very purposes answered by these ancient payments, as merely their successor and representative.
1853, Daniel Rock, The Church of Our Fathers, as Seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of Salisbury, with Dissertations on the Belief and Ritual in England Before and After the Coming of the Normans, volume 3, part 2, London: C. Dolman, page 110:To find these lights about the church and at the altar, it was decreed that besides those willing gifts which pious people might like to bestow for this purpose, each one according to the extent of land he had, should pay into his parish church, thrice a year, once at Candlemass, again at Easter, and lastly at Allhallows'-tide, a certain quantity of wax under the name of light-shot.
1870, W. H. Pinnock, An Analysis of English Church History, Comprising the Reformation Period, and Subsequent Events, 6th edition, Cambridge: J. Hall & Son, page 45:The Danes were overthrown in the battle of Ethandune, and compelled to submit to the terms of Alfred, which were, that they might settle in England on condition of their embracing Christianity, and paying tithes, Rome-shot, light-shot, (church-shot), plough-alms (a kind of rent-charge), and all other dues of the Church as paid by his own people.