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

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

It was probably exhaustive, and may therefore be taken as indicating with tolerable precision the standard of household comfort of a London burgess at that time.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

But, not being the son of a burgess, and not having served his apprenticeship in the town, he was forbidden by the guilds, or trades-unions, to open a shop in Glasgow.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.