burgesses in the PONS Dictionary

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In 1695, three aldermen and three burgesses were appointed to collect contributions towards the maintenance costs.
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The corporation was a body corporate with perpetual succession, and included all registered electors or burgesses of the borough.
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In 1340 the burgesses received a grant of quayage which was to be expended on repairing the quays and towers of the town wall.
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Only the provost (who was the returning officer for the borough) and the twelve burgesses were enfranchised.
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She had a hall, and two carucates and land for threeploughs without geld, and 111 burgesses.
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The archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls and barons were summoned, as were two knights from each shire and two burgesses from each borough.
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The town had a priest, 60 petty burgesses, 16 cottagers, 16 villagers and 8 smallholders, amounting to a total of 101 people.
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