burgess

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Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess.

From Time Magazine Archive

His father, Patricius, was a burgess of this town, and was still a pagan at the time of his son’s birth.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

He must become in fact a full burgess.

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden