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Definition of Burgesses
1. burgess [n] - See also: burgess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burgesses
Literary usage of Burgesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"To which said by-law the mayor and burgesses for the lime being, from the time
of the making thereof hitherto, have consented and conformed ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"which rather reads as if Eudo had become possessor, and that in the time of the
elder William, of the common ¡and of the burgesses. ..."
3. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"At first the governor, council, and burgesses met together in a single ...
In the body of the church, facing the choir, sat the burgesses in their best ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"And accordingly a writing was drawn, and signed by betwixt three and tour hundred
of the burgesses, and then a fair copy made and examined with the original ..."
5. The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History by Charles Gross (1890)
"In the fourteenth century it was necessary that each burgh should present to the
Chamberlain on his eyre all the names of the burgesses, 'the names of the ..."
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