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

Amongst other notices of the Town Cross at Linlithgow is a record of punishment inflicted upon an unfortunate burgess, for “in his great raschness and suddantie destroying the head of the Toun’s drum.”

From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various

His lordship hath himself spoken it," said the burgess, "we take our leave.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various