Word Finder - burgess

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An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.

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A town magistrate.

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A representative of a borough in the Parliament.

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A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.

By a statute of 1535 Brecon was made the county town of the new shire of Brecknock, and was granted the right of electing one burgess to represent it in parliament, a right which it retained till it was merged in the county representation in 1885.

The council was empowered to elect one burgess to parliament, and this right continued until the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885.

The statement caught Burgess's attention.

A person so qualified is entitled to be enrolled as a burgess, or registered as a county elector (as the case may be), unless he is alien, has during the qualifying period received union or parochial relief or other alms, or is disentitled under some act of parliament such as the Corrupt Practices Act, the Felony Act, &c. The lists of burgesses and county electors are prepared annually by the overseers of each parish in the borough or county, and are revised by the revising barrister at courts holden by him for the purpose in September or October of each year.

The statement didn't reduce Burgess's concern an iota.

He could have been killed but when you switched the light back on, it blinded Burgess.

The FBI built a good case against Burgess.

Driven from Strassburg by the authorities, after a short imprisonment in December 1531, he tried to make a living in 1532 as a soapboiler at Esslingen, removing in 1533 for a better market to Ulm, where (October 28, 1 534) he was admitted as a burgess.

By 1 3 05 the burgesses had become so powerful as to wring a most liberal grant of privileges from their then seigneur William de Braose (fourth in descent from his namesake to whom Gower was granted by King John in 1203), and he bound himself to pay LSoo to the king and 500 marks to any burgess in the event of his infringing any of the rights contained in it.

The qualification of a burgess or county elector is substantially the occupation of rated property within the borough or county, residence during a qualifying period of twelve months within the borough or county, and payment of rates for the qualifying property.

The qualification of a burgess has been incidentally mentioned in connexion with that of a county elector, and need not be further noticed.

In 1536, under Henry VIII., Haverfordwest was declared a town and county of itself and was further empowered to send a representative burgess to parliament.

Gladstone, was a burgess of Biggar, and lies in the churchyard.

Burgess added glumly that he used to have a wife there.

The lucky person was Jack Burgess who also was warmly applauded by the audience.

Andrew junior was admitted burgess of Brechin on 18th October 1736.

He had become a burgess on 20th April 1765.

In the previous year Ward, then living at St Annes, was made a burgess by order of the mayor.

The donor might be a manorial lord or wealthy burgess.

At the major intersection with The Avenue, continue straight on along Burgess Road.

Ben Burgess is the attacking lynchpin through which City can develop most of their attacks.

Burgess can play in a two or three-man midfield which is important.

Leroy Burgess ' first taste of fame was as the lead singer of ' 70s soul vocal trio Black Ivory.

In the register of the court, extending over 1563 and 1564, the justice-deputes named are "Archibald Naper of Merchistoune, Alexander Bannatyne, burgess of Edinburgh, James Stirling of Keir and Mr Thomas Craig."

The aristocracy of birth, despite its reverses, still remained the elite of society; and Griffenfeldt, the son of a burgess as well as the protagonist of monarchy, was its most determined enemy.

Burgess 's goal was so good they even showed a slow-motion replay of it.

Goals are to be shown on BBC local news monday teatime the Burgess goal not to be missed !

Fred said nothing and Dean finally dropped the bombshell—Chip Burgess's telephone identi­fication of Cleary-Byrne.

Strangely, Fred made no further mention of Monday night's revealing identification of Jeffrey Byrne by Chip Burgess.

Say Cleary rented the place innocently—he's a coast-to-coast truck driver or something and needs a temporary place, just like Burgess.

Then there was the apart­ment rental with Burgess's identification of Byrne, however tenu­ous, followed by the newspaper subscription and the motor home purchase.

Burgess rose and crossed to the window.

Dean caught a flash of Burgess's smile in the light of an arriv­ing car.

I know it's unchristian, but I'm relieved Burgess is gone.

He married a daughter of Dr Burgess, who was Vere's chaplain, and, on his father-in-law's return to England, succeeded to his place.

His "Replies" to Bishop Morton and Dr Burgess on "Ceremonies" tell us that even kinship could not prevent him from "contending earnestly for the faith."

Burgess has an exhaustive account of the Jain Cave Temples (none older than the 7th century) in Fergusson and Burgess's Cave Temples in India (London, 1880).

In the same year one John Ford for his services as a witch-finder was admitted a burgess along with Lord Kinghorne.

In the Hundred Rolls of 1279 Woodstock is described as a vill, but a burgess is alluded to in the same document, and it returned two members to parliament as a borough in 1302 and 1305.

Second floor apartment D showed the name Burgess but C, where J. Cleary was to reside, was also empty.

Nor had Burgess heard any noise or conversation from apart­ment C to indicate there was anyone there—much less more than one person.

Fred said nothing and Dean finally dropped the bombshell—Chip Burgess's telephone identi­fication of Cleary-Byrne.

Dean reiterated the obvious—Burgess was less than positive and the picture he sort-of identified was years old.

Say Cleary rented the place innocently—he's a coast-to-coast truck driver or something and needs a temporary place, just like Burgess.

In most cases the schools are simply reflecting the ethnic makeup of highly segregated neighborhoods, according to Prof Burgess.

Mark is also working with the great mezzo-soprano, Sally Burgess, with whom he has toured and recorded.

Two ladies (Mrs Burgess and Mrs Hall) were employed to sew up and mend the Hessian sacks - quite a messy job.

Goals are to be shown on BBC local news monday teatime the Burgess goal not to be missed!

It may be prepared by the direct union of its constituents (see Burgess and Chapman, J.C.S., 1906, 8 9, p. 1 399), but on the large scale and also for the preparation of small quantities it is made by the decomposition of salt by means of concentrated sulphuric acid, NaC1-j-H 2 SO 4 =NaHSO 4 +HC1.

Two ladies (Mrs Burgess and Mrs Hall) were employed to sew up and mend the hessian sacks - quite a messy job.