burgess

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Yet so rich of heart was this burgess that not poverty even might make him knot his purse.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

The fishmonger replied that being a leading burgess of Damme, he desired to have the laws of the empire respected and thus to deserve His Majesty’s clemency.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

There he sought a shop and dwelling, and paying his service, made himself vassal and burgess of the King.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene