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

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

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..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..

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.

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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

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