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Definition of Boroughs
1. borough [n] - See also: borough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boroughs
Literary usage of Boroughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"635-41) and by the councils of the 28 metropolitan boroughs listed on p. 634.
... Unless otherwise stated, areas named as part of new boroughs arc those of ..."
2. The Government of England by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1908)
"CHAPTER XXXIX boroughs.1 — THE TOWN COUNCIL The Laws THE flood of reform that
... 4 The boroughs left untouched by the Act of 1835 were either brought under ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"It is certain that direct bribes were received by the majority of electors in
most rotten boroughs. In some cases the practice was so systematised, ..."
4. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1887)
"THE boroughs CONSOLIDATED. SEC. 9. It has been noted that the proprietor had
original power to create boroughs.1 Prior to the Revolution the proprietors ..."
5. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"I STAFFORDSHIRE, with the City of Lichfield, the boroughs, Towns, and Parishes
therein 6 SHROPSHIRE, with the boroughs, Towns, and Parishes therein, ..."
6. Electoral Reform in England and Wales: The Development and Operation of the by Charles Seymour (1915)
"and boroughs after 1867, and which were in part actually emphasized by the act
of that year, were by no means the sole object of Radical attack. ..."
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