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Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..

Burgage :: Burgage (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft..

Borough :: Borough (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

Third-borough :: Third-borough (n.) An under constable.

Borough :: Borough (n.) In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut..

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Borough :: Borough (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax..

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at..

Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..

Burghmote :: Burghmote (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

Burgher :: Burgher (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough..

Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..

Bury :: Bury (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's.

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..

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