The burgages erected numbered 168, each of which paid a ground rent of one shilling per annum into the royal exchequer.
The right sprang from the tenure of certain freehold lands or burgages within the borough, and did not belong to any but such tenants.
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.
It seems generally expected that the barons of the county should have a fewburgages apiece in the county town.
For the survival in Wareham of these burgages of various sizes, Hutchins’ Dorsetshire, i.
For burgages owned by parsons and clerics in Southampton, Hist.
John were to be capable of taking up burgages in the town and to have the same liberties within and without the town as burgesses.
And to the same burgesses, that they might make their wills and lawfully in their wills bequeath at their pleasure their chattels and burgages which they should hold by purchase.
And that none of them should come without the borough aforesaid by any summons to the hundred of the same earls of the honour of Gloucester in the county aforesaid by reason of their burgages aforesaid.
And that the burgesses aforesaid should have common pasture for their beasts in the common pasture of the borough aforesaid, according to their burgages which they have in the same borough, as they have been accustomed hitherto.
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