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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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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