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
"A most respectable lineage," said tho burgess, quite awe-struck at so glorious a descent.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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 Eugene Mason
Losing their place in the national scheme of defence, the burgess “cnihts” made commerce their principal object under the encouragement of the old privileges of the walled place.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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