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Boroughmongering :: Boroughmongering (n.) Alt. of Boroughmonger.

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

Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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

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

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..

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..

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

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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