The story
- Middle English · inherited fromsaulesoth
- English todaysoulscot
From Middle English saulesoth, *soulescot, from sāwolsċeatt (“an ecclesiastical due, to be paid for every deceased person to the clergy of the church to which he belonged, in consideration of the services performed by them in his behalf”), equivalent to soul + scot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.