This doone, he came to the castell, where he continued a good space after, receiuing homages and fealties of the burgesses and townesmen, and setting orders amongst them.
The bailiife also of the towne, and two of the cheefest burgesses that had beene of counsell with him in his vnlawfull dooings, were likewise executed.
She also wrote to him (being then Sheriff of Cornwall, 2nd Mary) touching the election of the Knights of the Shire, and the burgesses for the Parliament.
Though, in some instances, the new towns received their privileges from the princes, who rather encouraged than opposed their development, the burgesses were frequently obliged to fight in order to obtain their liberty.
The burgesses kept up the struggle for two centuries, until they succeeded in taking from the bishops every shred of temporal power and in obtaining the entire control of the city.
Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy.
When, in 1077, Bishop Gérard left Cambrai to receive his investiture from Henry IV, the burgesses overwhelmed the soldiery, seized the gates and proclaimed the Commune.
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries they fostered trade and industry by affording due protection to the burgesses and forcing the princes to follow a policy in accordance with the interests of the country.
By the charter of incorporation granted in the following year the name was changed to Falmouth, and a mayor, recorder, 7 aldermen and 12 burgesses constituted a common council with the usual rights and privileges.
Twelve jurors, elected by the burgessesand other townsfolk, administered the affairs of the city.
To the burgesses and inhabitants of the town of Troyes Jeanne dictated a letter.
This unfortunate noble spent thoughtlessly right and left, while rich burgesses made great profits by lending to him at a high rate of interest.
He was a very rich man and had married the daughter of one of the most influential burgesses of the city.
Thus on the raising of the siege of Orléans all the burgesses depone like the woollen draper, who himself was not thoroughly conversant with the circumstances in which his town had been delivered.
He had received information and promises; he maintained secret relations with several burgessesof the city, and those none of the least.
In 1200 King John granted the burgesses their first charter, confirming their town to them to be held at fee-farm, exempting them from tolls and similar customs, and granting them a gild-merchant.
The townsmen had acquired the privileges of burgesses by 1086 when Roger Bigot kept the borough in the king's hands.
In 1613, the Prince of Condé and the Duke of Nevers took the castle by surprise and forced the burgesses to lay down their arms.
In 1387 the town suffered during the war between the burgesses of Verdun and three neighbouring lords.
Under the League, the Governor, Mondreville, sided with the Guises, but could not shake the allegiance of the burgesses to Henri III.
Foreigners and certain burgesses of London hold amongst them twenty-three hides of the land of the villanes.
William the King friendly salutes William the Bishop, and Godfrey the portreve, and all the burgesses within London, both French and English.
Every house was tolerably well filled; but the Highlanders continued pouring in till ten or eleven o'clock, until the burgesses of Derby began to think they "should never have seen the last of them.
He complained bitterly of his attacks upon those Burgesses that had opposed him in the Assembly, and of his abuse of the power of suspending Councillors.
When this news reached the little capital, the governor, his Council, and the Burgesses were panic stricken.
Accordingly an act was drafted in the House of Burgesses and, in due time, sent up for the approval of the Council.
The feeling of uneasiness was increased when, in 1688, Effingham, declaring it no longer necessary for the Burgesses to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, admitted a Catholic to the Assembly.
The exact date of the election for Burgessesis not known.
The Burgesses were deeply agitated by this letter.
Certain it is, that the House of Burgessesas well as the Council, was filled with ardent loyalists and friends of the Governor.
Among the leaders of the House of Burgesses was Isaac Allerton, a man of wealth and education, and an excellent speaker.
The elimination of theBurgesses would have left them as absolute as had been Wingfield and the first Council.
Feeling, doubtless, a reluctance to assume the entire responsibility of moulding a new constitution, they resolved to wait until the Burgesses assembled and to consult with them in all their measures.
Patrick Henry's Speech in the House of Burgesses After the painting by Rothermel.
The gentry of the Pale and the Dublin burgesses protested in vain against the return of strangers for boroughs which they had never even seen: "the more words the more choler.
From henceforth" the knights and burgesses were to be resident, under penalty of fines--a provision well calculated to disappoint the hopes it raised.
An agreement, presented by Washington in the House of Burgesses of Virginia, was signed by every member, and the patriotism of the people was every where displayed by acts of self-denial.
When, two years later, he sent two henchmen as burgesses to the first general assembly, that august body would not allow them to sit unless the captain would relinquish certain high privileges in his grant.
For them the gentlemen of the Burgesses were to give a ball the next night.
Mr. Henry had thundered in the old capitol, the Burgesses had their council-chamber there, and in the hall there would be a ball that night.
The Burgesses were to give a great ball in his honor that very night, and now he was come to dissolve them.
There was some debate as to whether the planters should give to free burgesses the power of making ordinances, but it was ultimately decided to do so.
Church members onely shall be free burgesses and they onely shall chuse magistrates and officers among themselves to haue the power of transacting in all publique and ciuill affayres of this plantatio.
From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.
The medieval burgesses and the small peasant proprietors were the precursors of the modern bourgeoisie.
My fellow Burgesses went back to their hundreds, but my house at Weyanoke knew me no more.
Five London burgesses are described in a group, and a Nun and Priest[3] are mentioned as in attendance on the Prioress.
In 1524 Charles, first earl of Worcester and then lord of the Marches, granted a new charter of incorporation to the bailiffs and burgesses of the town, which had fallen into decay.
In 1769, he became a member of the House of Burgesses along with Washington and other prominent Virginians, and with the exception of brief intervals he served with distinction until the outbreak of the Revolution.
In May, 1765, Henry was elected to the House ofBurgesses which met at Williamsburg.
But he was prevented by Simon Glover, who, with otherburgesses of consideration, had now entered the barrace.
Go now, Magdalen, and choose at your will among the burgesses of the Fair City, present or absent, any one upon whom you desire to rest your challenge, if he against whom you bring plaint shall prove to be beneath my degree.
Which of your belted lords or wealthy burgesses will then step between their king and the penalty which he has incurred by following of their secular policy in matters ecclesiastical?
Sure it is time enough for decent burgesses to arm at the tolling of the common bell, which calls us out bodin in effeir of war.
After the battle of Cannae it was found necessary to fill up the hideous gap in the Senate by an extraordinary nomination of 177 senators; the ordinary burgesses suffered hardly less severely.
For sixty years he had been a name, not a figure; and the news of his death, which was assuredly an event, incited the burgesses to gossip, for they had come to regard him as one of the invisible immortals.
Then dawned the day of battle, the day of the Poll, when the burgesseswere to indicate plainly by means of a cross on a voting paper whether or not they wanted Federation.
And though John Baines had been bedridden for a dozen years, he still lived on the lips of admiring, ceremonious burgesses as 'our honoured fellow-townsman.
At moments of auction burgesses were reminded that the erections they lived in were not houses, as they had falsely supposed, but messuages.
He must have been disgusted that theBurgesses were too cowardly to vote down a resolution requesting the governor not to resign.
Several weeks passed before they convened, since it took time to reach the Burgesses who lived in the distant counties, and for them to travel, perhaps by boat, down the Potomac or the Rappahannock, and up the James to Jamestown.
The governor was as overbearing as ever, the Burgesses were overawed, the plans for reform were set aside, the Indian war was mismanaged.
This he did by corrupting the Burgesses and continuing them by prorogations for many years.
Collectors', sheriffs', justices' places were handed out to the Burgesseswith a lavish hand.
William Sherwood said that most of the Burgesses were the governor's "own creatures and chose by his appointments.
One of the Burgesses called back: "For God's sake hold your hands; forbear a little and you shall have what you please.
In fact Berkeley had warned the Burgesses not to be misled by these "two rogues.
The final count showed that one after another the old Burgesses were defeated at the polls until in the end all but eight of the new House were of "Bacon's faction.
A few days later the governor summoned the Burgesses to meet with the Council in the Court Room of the State House.
He had every reason to expect that the new House of Burgesses would be overwhelmingly hostile to him, and as the returns came in he saw that his worst fears would be realized.
The Burgesses hearing the noise below, crowded to the windows.
The petition presented by the House of Burgesses in 1772 recites: "We implore your Majesty's paternal assistance in averting a calamity of a most alarming nature.
In 1769, her House of Burgesses again asserted its position in a series of resolutions which Mr. Bancroft declares were "so calm in manner and so perfect in substance that time finds no omission to regret, no improvement to suggest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
