Until that date titles were made up on burgage holding and resignations made in favour of the bailies of Auchterarder, who probably received their appointment from the family of Perth, the proprietors of the adjoining Barony.
After the Act for the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1748 the portion of Auchterarder strictly burghal ceased to have titles completed in the burgage form.
And if any of them should hold half a burgage, he should hold it with the same liberty with which tenants of a whole burgage should hold and have the same, according to the quantity of his burgage.
If any man have held land in burgage for a year and a day, lawfully and without claim, he shall not answer a claimant, unless the claimant have been without the realm of England, or a child not of age to plead.
Nor will we have the custody of such fee farm, socage, or burgage unless such fee farm owe knight's service.
The question presented to him was "whether the owners of burgage tenements in the borough, had a right of voting, or whether that right was confined to the freemen of the corporation.
The plaintiff may have a right to vote, but that depends upon an intricate question of law, with respect to burgage tenures; the right itself founded on ancient documents and usages, and not acted upon for many years.
The defendant had rejected the vote offered by the plaintiff, he claiming the right as a burgage tenant.
It is called Burgage Manor, and stands on the top of a sloping green, called Burgage Green, very pleasantly, and at the back looking over a pleasant stretch of country toward Farnsfield.
And also it is my will that Hugh my sone have the halfe burgage that I purchest of Richard Fornesse and the hows be yond Irke brege that [?
At Hereford the reeve's consent was necessary when a burgage was to be sold, and he took a third of the price.
Still if we look at borough after borough, tenure at a money rent is the tenure of the burgage houses that we expect to find, and such a tenure, even if in its origin it has been precarious, is likely to become heritable and secure.
Thus tenure at a money rent would become the typical tenure of a burgage tenement.
When in later days a rural manor is being raised to the rank of a liber burgus, the introduction of 'burgage tenure' seems to be regarded as the very essence of the enfranchisement[777].
Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.
Again, the king's gafol, that is his burgage rents, may be farmed: they are computed at a round sum.
Footnote 1: Elizabeth Bridget Pigot lived with her mother and two brothers on Southwell Green, in a house opposite Burgage Manor.
However I am now perfectly recovered, and live in hopes of being emancipated from the slavery of Burgage manor.
Footnote 3: Probably an allusion to his mother leaving Burgage Manor and taking up her residence at Newstead.
The ancientburgage holdings were 160; but many had fallen and were not rebuilt, and the population of Saltash had vastly extended beyond the bounds of the ancient borough.
Not only are there in it still many ancient houses, but several of the ancient families that were burgage tenants hundreds of years ago are still represented there.
Bouverie being its representatives, and the votes being vested in the persons having a freehold interest in burgagetenures and held of the Bishop of Winchester; the number of voters is not given--possibly J.
Besides the general objection of “occasionally,” a proportion of the votes for the sitting members was impeached for reasons drawn from the nature of burgage tenements, as set forth in the definition of these terms.
Tenure by burgage was subject to a variety of customs, the principal of which was Borough-English (q.
Since the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, there is, however, not much distinction between burgage tenure and free holding.
After the Plague a “free burgage by fealty” grew up, with an oath to observe the customs and services of the manor.
At Battle, under Henry the Second, 115 burgage tenements were occupied by tradesmen who had to work in the meadows or at the mill, but were called burgesses “on account of the superior dignity of the place’s excellence.
In Lincoln and Torksey no burgess could sell his burgage tenement save to a burgess or a kinsman without leave (Rep.
They counted among their number ancient burghers who had fallen into low estate and could no longer pay their burgage dues, as well as the poor who had never prospered so far as to buy a tenure or citizenship.
In Preston the rule was that if he had received for his burgage “a void place” he must set up a house on it within forty days; in other towns, as in Norwich or Hereford, he was allowed a year and a day.
As the country folk migrated in increasing numbers from manor and village to the town[310] old rigid distinctions were swept away, and the simplicity and uniformity of the burgage tenure was completely broken up.
Burgage rents in the earliest times were accounted for by the officers not in a lump sum but “as the pennies come in.
It countenances what is called the right of burgage tenure; the electors in boroughs of this description being such as hold burgages or ancient tenements within the borough.
The crown revenues from the burgage rents and the royal customs were leased in fee-farm from time to time, sometimes to the corporation, at other times to private persons.
