Sometimes this appears to be the title of the senior Bailiff, as Richard Burgess and Thomas Ouenat are described as Bailiffs in a deed circa 1230, but in another deed of the same date Burgess is called 'Major' and Ouenat 'Bailiff.
When an occupier dies, the profits accruing from his share are kept by his representatives, and at the ensuing Michaelmas Court the burgess next in age to the deceased is presented by the jury, and obtains the share previously held by him.
General Burgess designated Major Verne Sadowski of his staff to be the ADC liaison officer with Project Grudge.
Inside of two weeks General Burgess had called General Garland, they'd discussed the problem, and I was back in Colorado Springs setting up a program with Colonel White's 4602nd.
The gun-boats were again placed in position, and Lieutenant Burgess was sent ashore with a flag of truce to demand unconditional surrender.
What is the name--the British defector, and the two foreign office menBurgess and McLean.
One of the two, Burgess or McLean, is married to an American.
He was in time to hand the match to Corporal Burgess who had no sooner fired the train than he fell, mortally wounded.
Captain Burgess shot one of the rascals, but the other managed to cut down Lieutenant Powys before he was shot by the captain.
The men were the first victims of the massacre, Captain Burgess taking the lead, his elbows tied behind his back, and a prayer book in his hands.
Faulconbridge is at first full of youthful insolence, the true mediæval nobleman, who despises the burgess class simply as such.
A bold priest, Burgess by name, preached a sermon in the King's presence, soon after this, on the insignificance of ceremonies.
Stockton or John Kendrick Bangs or Gelett Burgess could have got out of the situation.
An incoming burgess was required to buy his right to trade either by way of a seven year apprenticeship or by payment of an entry fee.
The burgess grew rich as the knight dropped lower.
Infant mortality was especially high in boroughs and burgess family lines usually died out.
I should have been reduced to the humiliation of borrowing from Madeline here, or asking that deaf old Burgess man to trust me until to-morrow.
As to Cicero, Clodius brought in a project of law which characterized the execution of a burgesswithout trial and sentence as a crime to be punished with banishment.
He knew how to salute by name every burgess of the capital.
Alterations on the Constitution By Gaius Gracchus) allowed every burgess domiciled in Rome to share in the largesses of grain, is certain.
Ah," said Ashton-Kirk, "I see Burgess is still on the job.
Perhaps, after all, he was detected; for a few minutes later Burgess saw him leave the house.
Burgess tapped a folded newspaper at his breast pocket.
Mr. Burgess lay in a hammock between two maple trees, and was soothingly swung by means of a string connecting the hammock and the rocking-chair in which sat Mrs Burgess, acting as a mild motor for both the chair and the hammock.
Mr. and Mrs. Burgesshad been happily married for fifty-three years and four months.
It is thus that the decent burgess who, in 1572, kept The Diurnal of such daily events as he deemed important, cautiously records the death of the great Scottish Reformer.
This was a most delightful place, and so homelike; it was with regret that I left it behind, Mrs. Burgess being the last white lady I might ever see.
Mr. Burgess had another station called Yuin, about 115 miles easterly from here, and where his nephews, the two Messrs.
At Yuin Mr. Burgess had just completed the erection of, I should say, the largest wool-shed in the Colony.
The country belonging to Mr. Burgess and the Messrs.
Burgess are among the oldest and wealthiest residents in the Colony.
Mr. Burgess told me of a water-hole in a creek, called Natta, nine or ten miles off, where I intend to go next.
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In 1536 the rebels demand that "if a knight or burgess died during Parliament his room should continue void to the end of the same" (L.
They customarily received a small freehold according to the general notion of antiquity that a burgess must be a landowner.
If Marius[5] and Saturninus were to succeed, it must be by the aid of the country burgess and the soldier.
Each town regarded every non-burgess of that town as a "foreigner," and freedom of trade was only allowed to townsmen.
A school at Lancaster was founded in 1469 by John Gardyner, burgess and probably miller, of Lancaster.
He drifted out toward the sidewalk and was accosted by a passing acquaintance, a comfortable burgess of sixty, leading a child of six or seven, by the hand.
Captain Jerry Burgess dropped in to bring the Winslow mail, which in this case consisted of an order, a bill and a circular setting forth the transcendent healing qualities of African Balm, the Foe of Rheumatism.
Be complaisant, worthy captain of trainbands and Burgess from a dozen huts!
While the Assembly was in session I had my part to act asBurgess from my hundred.
Underneath the table, still grasping his empty tankard, lay the first of my lord's guests to fall, an up-river Burgess with white hair.
Rolfe rose from the grass and stood beside me, and Jeremy Sparrow, shouldering aside with scant ceremony Burgess and Councilor, came also.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; burgher; citizen; townspeople; villager
