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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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