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Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..

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

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..

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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

Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..

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..

Boroughholder :: Boroughholder (n.) A headborough; a borsholder.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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

Freeman :: Freeman (n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman..

Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..

Borough :: Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

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

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

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..

Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

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