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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..

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

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

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

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..

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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..

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

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

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

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