It was one of the burhs mentioned in the Burghal Hidage.
Nor is it one of the boroughs of the Burghal Hidage.
Oxford was a burgus in Saxon times, and is one of those mentioned in the Burghal Hidage.
Nor is there any mention of Corfe as a fortress in Anglo-Saxon times; it is not named in the Burghal Hidage, and we do not hear of any sieges of it by the Danes.
Lewes is one of the boroughs mentioned in the Burghal Hidage, and was a burgus at the time of the Survey.
Wareham is a town fortified by an earthen vallum and ditch, and is one of the boroughs of the Burghal Hidage.
Arundel is one of the towns mentioned in the "Burghal Hidage.
The site was an important one; Totnes had been one of the boroughs of the Burghal Hidage; it was at the head of a navigable river, and was the point where the ancient Roman (?
Hastings itself had been a fortified town before the Norman Conquest, and is one of those mentioned in the Burghal Hidage.
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.
In Ireland the earliest traces of burghallife are connected with the maritime settlements on the southern and eastern coast.
The pressure of taxation led in the 13th century to a closer definition of the burghal constitutions; the commons sought to get an audit of accounts, and (in London) not only to hear but to treat of municipal affairs.
A large number of the followers of the Norman lords had been almost certainly town-dwellers in their own country, and lost none of their burghal privileges by the migration.
Markets are being held and market-tolls are being taken in many vills which are not of burghal rank[762].
Even the gulf between The Burghal Hidage and this Tribal Hidage is enormous.
Even in the days of The Burghal Hidage there was a kingdom of England.
But we must keep these ancient boroughs well apart from any royal manors which the king has newly raised toburghal rank.
In Gloucestershire is Gloucester, but Winchcombe also asserts its burghal rank.
Axbridge, Langport and Milborne seem to be boroughs; Axbridge and Langport occur in that list of ancient fortresses which we have called The Burghal Hidage[844].
Perhaps The Burghal Hidage may represent one of the first attempts to arrange for political purposes the hides of a large province.
We have seen the hides steadily increasing in number as we passed from Domesday Book to The County Hidage and thence to The Burghal Hidage, and what may we not expect in the remote age that we have now reached?
There has come down to us in a sadly degenerate form a document which we shall hereafter call 'The Burghal Hidage[744].
Next we see that, with hardly an exception[1695], all the aberrations of ourBurghal Hidage from Domesday Book lie in one direction.
The possible objection that a similar theory of burghal representation has been stated and rejected by English constitutional historians is scarcely applicable.
We know, too, that each town sometimes treated separately with the king; and that for centuries before they were represented in the Great Councils the burgesses met in purely burghal assemblies.
Hence, as I said of the burghal magistracies, they cling to each other, and by that very means separate themselves more from the people than the necessity of the case requires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burghal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: city; civic; downtown; interurban; midtown; municipal; suburban; town; uptown; village
