Obs. Also cullet(t, colyet, coliet, culiet, cullet, culett(e. [a. OF. cueillete, coillete, cuillete, a semi-popular ad. L. collecta collection, assessment, collection of dues.] A sum collected from a number of persons chargeable; an assessment, a rate: a. Oxford Univ. A fee formerly paid by every graduate to the bedel of his faculty, as a recompense for attendance at disputations, lectures, etc. It was collected by the bedel once a year, and was called in Latin cumulatio.
1550. MS. note, in Liber Antiq. Bedellorum (Bodl. Libr. Rawl. 662 fol. 134 b). Chargys of a bachyllar of dewynytte beyng no componder; hys cullet muste be pey[d] yerly.
1602. in Clark, Reg. Univ. Oxon. (1887), II. i. 221. He is to pay two years’ culett beforehand.
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. v. 123.
1873. Athenæum, 5 Oct., 442/1.
b. An assessment of parochial dues.
The quotations refer to ‘culets’ paid by the chapelry of Ulpha to the Parish of Millom, of which it formed a part.
1764. Churchw. Acct.-bk. Ulpha, Millom, Cumberland, May 5 By a list of four Coliets being one guinea each as follows. Ibid. (1768), June 16 By a list of three Culiets and one third £3 9s. 6d. Ibid. (1771), April 28 By a list of four Colyets, one half, one seventh £4 13s. 10d. Ibid. (1814), 5 Aug.
