Burgess

Definitions

1. An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
2. A surname transferred from the common noun.
3. A town magistrate.
   historical
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. A township in Bond County, Illinois.
6. A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
   UK, historical
7. An unincorporated community in Hayes Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
8. A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.
   US, historical
9. A village in Barton County, Missouri.
10. An unincorporated community in Horry County, South Carolina.
11. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia.

Equivalents

Examples

“In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own⟳ select⟳ circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.”

“If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue⟳ by a villein or outdweller , let⟳ him defend⟳ himself by oath, that is to say⟳ by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect⟳ of a crime that the law requires him to defend⟳ by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight⟳ against a villein if he have⟳ challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have⟳ quitted the burgage.”

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