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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Grant of the Office of Trover and Poiser, to the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle, for three Lives. A Discharge to the …
Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London
… the Exaltation of the Holy Cross [14 September], the four burgesses who had followed the King's Court, returned to … with a fine company of great men of the land and of the burgesses of London, on the Sunday next before the Tiffany [6 … Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earls, Barons, Knights, and burgesses, were sent to him at the Castle of 122Kylingworthe, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… recorded before 1351 37 but representatives of the town's burgesses were summoned to Parliament in 1275. The names of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Mon. v, 574). This style appears in his charters to: the burgesses of Richmond (R. Gale, op. cit. App. 101); Jervaulx …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… that during the next century the privileges of the burgesses were allowed to lapse, as Fareham is omitted from …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… appears to have been made between borough and manor. The burgesses were called upon in the 15th century to pay a rent … 66 Little is known of the communal organization of the burgesses. A reference occurs to the portmote under that name … plan was conceived of securing greater liberties for the burgesses by forging a charter supposed to date from Henry …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… town should be incorporated under the title of bailiff, burgesses and commonalty of Colnbrook. Twelve chief burgesses, of whom the bailiff was to be one, were to form … for life. The retiring bailiff nominated two chief burgesses, from whom the bailiff for the following year was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1255 this privilege appears to have belonged to the burgesses. 45 By 1253 certain manors, Rowde no doubt in … 220 it harboured poachers. The Bishop of Salisbury and the burgesses of Wilton had prisons of their own. The bishop's … in the seventies. 469 These were presumably resident 'burgesses' in the strict sense, who did not scruple to …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… by 1272, had its own court leet. 91 The Much Wenlock burgesses 92 were thus privileged within the liberty, and in … of a 'free borough incorporate forever'. 58 A bailiff, burgesses, and commonalty were to have a liberty extending … of Holy Trinity'. Among the franchises granted to the new burgesses 59 were some that had already been long enjoyed by …