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

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..

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough..

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

Headborough :: Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborro.

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

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..

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

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

Boroughmongery :: Boroughmongery (n.) The practices of a boroughmonger.

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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