Here were the nobles and knights, the consuls and richburghers who had thus far defied scrutiny and had protected their less fortunate comrades.
The whole city, indeed, seemed to be of one mind, and many of the principal burghers were leaders of the tumult.
Nobles and burghers alike protected and defended the proscribed class, and those who hunted them were slain without mercy when occasion offered.
The rich burghers of the cities--merchants and professional men--had learned the temptations held out by their wealth and the impossibility of avoiding detection.
As only one regiment of Prussians could be spared to remain there in garrison, the burghers were disarmed, their arms deposited in the arsenal, and a detachment was posted at Konigstein, to oblige that fortress to observe a strict neutrality.
In Catalonia the duke of Vendôme invested Barcelona, in which there was a garrison of ten thousand regular soldiers, besides five thousand burghers who had voluntarily taken arms on this occasion.
The burghers immediately took to their arms, and planted cannon on the ramparts; but when they saw a battery erected against them, and the elector determined to bombard the place, they thought proper to capitulate, and comply with his demands.
The rich burghers and magistrates kept open houses, where the officers of the army were always welcome; and the council of the city took such care of the poor that there was no complaining nor disorders in the whole city.
Nor did he grieve less over the verbal tournament of the Talmudists and Frankists in the Cathedral of Lemberg, when the Polish nobility and burghers bought entrance tickets at high prices.
The French were already in the town; every house was closed and barred, and from the upper windows the burghers hurled down stones and bricks upon the fugitives, while parties of the French soldiers fell upon them fiercely.
This wholly unexpected proposition took the Flemish burghers by surprise.
Godfrey of Harcourt was the first to cross the river, and with the advance guard of English fell upon a large body of the burghers of Amiens, and after a severe fight defeated them, killing over five hundred.
Drunken soldiers reeled along shouting snatches of songs, and the burghers in the highest state of hilarity thronged the ways.
The approach to the gate was narrow, and the overwhelming number of the burgherswere therefore of little avail.
He demanded that six of the most notable burghers of the town, with bare heads and feet, and with ropes about their necks and the keys of the fortress in their hands, should deliver themselves up for execution.
Upon the English entering, the burghers offered to pay a large ransom to save the town from plunder.
He, with Ralph and two or three of the staunchest men, covered the retreat of the rest through the streets, making desperate charges upon the body of armed burghers pressing upon them.
On their return to the town the knights executed a number of the burghers who had joined the peasants, and the greater part of the town was burned to the ground as a punishment for having opened the gates to the peasants and united with them.
Many of the better class of burghers stood in groups in the streets and talked in low and rather frightened voices of the consequences which the deed of blood would bring upon the city.
Then the queen rose from her knees, and bidding the burghers rise, she caused clothing and food to be given them, and sent them away free.
The burghers had risen and had opened the gates to the peasants, who now poured in in thousands.
Our burghers have had a battle with the British, but the red-coats outnumbered them, and General Janssens has retired to Lawry's Pass.
Here all was in confusion, burghers were galloping hither and thither, and every one seemed too busy and excited to notice Colton as he rode wearily towards the Field Cornet's quarters to give himself up.
I shall be as a father over his children," he told the burghers of New Amsterdam, and in this patriarchal capacity he kept the people standing with their heads uncovered for more than an hour, while he wore his hat.
It was a simple but by no means a pitiable life that was led in those days by burghers and farmers alike on the shores of this great river.
In this emergency Kieft called a meeting at which the prominent burghers chose a committee of twelve to advise the Director.
Here the women knit their stockings and here the burghers smoked when the day's work was done.
Apparently, on the plea of having four motherless children, he escaped the infliction of punishment and continued alternately {95} to amuse and to outrage the respectable burghers of New Amsterdam.
He continued the commercial rights of the freeman who represented the burghers of the Dutch period, and he also introduced trial by jury, which placated the dwellers at New York and along the Hudson.
The small burghers were decreed to be those who had lived in the city for a year and six weeks and had kept fire and light, those born within the town, and those who had married the daughters of citizens.
The Council was composed originally of such burghers as the community saw fit to elect.
They led the armed burghers or the mercenaries in the wars of their country, and many of them obtained in the service of the Emperor, or elsewhere, the dignity of knighthood.
Before the burghers could stay them, before the guards could lift a finger, before breath could be drawn, the desperate spring was made and man and horse were over the parapet which overhung the moat 100 feet below.
From the natural necessity and apprehensions of the situation, the burghers felt the need of a representative body to sit with and to advise the magistrate, who was, originally at any rate, a King's man and officer of the Burggraf.
As the burghers were in general capable of bearing arms, the governing families especially kept themselves in military practice.
The good burghers were very fond of dancing, as we shall have further occasion to notice.
The Burggraf Frederick once made Elector, had parted with the Burggrafship, sold it, all but the title, to the burghers in 1427.
He confirmed the rich burghers in their offices, and succeeded in winning over the patricians to his side.
Eleven hundred burghers seized their arms and went as Crusaders to help the Hungarians in Belgrade against the infidel Turk.
Men and women, soldiers, burghers and peasants, laboured night and day at these entrenchments, which were provided with many small bastions and redoubts, and defended by over 300 cannon.
For two months the town was held by the burghers and the castle by the Præfect Conrad.
He made good his entrance into the city, where, byword of mouth, he encouraged his fellow-burghers as to the intentions of the Prince and Sonoy.
Gysbrecht van Amstel," a subject dearer to theburghers of Amsterdam than most others, is illuminated with the soft glimmer of altar-candles mingled with airy incense.
The governor himself rushed forward, sword in hand, as he spoke, the sturdy burghers with a shout pressed on, and the two parties were immediately engaged in a sanguinary conflict.
The worthy burghers assembled before the inn of frau Jost Stoll had not been alone in their anxiety for the return of the Ger-Falcon, nor in their curiosity about the strange vessel which had sailed so boldly into their harbour.
It was gallantly defended by the Spaniards for a long time; but, at last, three thousand of the burghers of Ghent, clothed in white shirts as a distinguishing mark, assaulted the citadel.
He relied upon his influence with the citizens to induce them to submit to this arrangement; but the stout burghers rejected the proposal with contempt and indignation.
They have always been forward in asserting and defending their liberties; and you will find that the burghers of Ghent figure largely in Mr. Motley's Histories.
In 1830 the old spirit of the burghers of Liége revived, and they were among the foremost promoters of the Belgian Revolution.
The burghers put the town in a state of defence, and privately offered their allegiance to Francis I.
On the one hand, the vengeance of the associates he had been constrained to betray; on the other, the retribution of the burghers of Urach.
Even if the news is carried to Helmund there are none but burghers there, and they are useless against cavalry, except behind their own walls.
Now, you will take six of my troopers with you; armed burghers will serve for the remainder of your escort.
Thy military chiefs are brave and true, Nor are thy disenchanted burghers few; The head is loyal which thy heart commands, But what's a head, with two such gouty hands?
A fortnight ago I rode out upon an expedition against a caravan of fat burghers in the valley of Gruenhoffen.
Knights from every lordship in Brabant were there, and armed burghers from every town save Bois-le-Duc, and Jacqueline herself was in the midst of them.
Indeed, in dealing not only with these men, but with the burghers who had opposed him, Philip certainly acted with singular moderation.
Shortly afterwards the Emperor had publicly invested him with the disputed fiefs, and in Holland at least, especially among the burghers of the great towns, he had a very considerable following.
Presently theburghers obtained a voice in the election of aldermen, and their term of office was limited to one year.
In vain the burghers of Louvain joined their efforts to the burghers of Brussels as mediators.
Jonker was not really a commandant, but, being the oldest Field Cornet, he was selected by us to organise and look after the burghers of the Harrismith commando, composed of those who had elected to surrender instead of going off with Olivier.
The ammunition was carried in bandoliers of every imaginable shape and pattern, mostly home made; but some of the burghers preferred cartridge bags of leather or canvas.
All the burghers paraded with their horses the next morning, so that those which were fit for use by the mounted troops might be taken, and others given in their place.
As the Boers were still in the neighbourhood, and the mounted troops were out all day destroying the farms of those burghers of whom a good account could not be given, the picket duty was rather hard.
And when the three little burghers of Mayence had swallowed the draught, they fell in a senseless lethargy upon the floor.
But the burghers thought of their schätzen at Mayence, and felt no especial affection toward such a father-in-law.
No—no—no, my lord,’ stammered the burghers of Mayence.
Don’t be frightened, and don’t go to sleep, and I will tell about the three little burghers of Mayence.
It was with this national militia that the citizens of Florence freed their Contado of the nobles, and the burghers of Lombardy gained the battle of Legnano.
So much time the burghersof the free towns could not spare to military service, while the petty nobles were only too glad to devote themselves to so honorable a calling.
It was famous during the last centuries of struggle between the Italian burghers and their native despots, for peculiar ferocity in civil strife.
Thus it came to pass that a class of professional fighting-men was gradually formed in Italy, whose services the burghers and the princes bought, and by whom the wars of the peninsula were regularly farmed by contract.
The Jury of Burgherscalled for the final trial, which was never empanelled, were greatly surprised and affected by the fearful sentence--some of them wept like children.
There is a little piazza running across the front, upon which he is frequently seen sitting, smoking his pipe of strong Boer tobacco, with a couple of his trusted burghers beside him.
They were Burghers belonging to the Volunteer Corps, and were quite a different grade altogether from the men who composed our guard at Pretoria.
The Burghers are disbanding and returning to their homes.
I must go slow, or my Burghers will get out of hand.
The gentlemen from Cologne, without troubling themselves about the boisterous merriment of the burghers or the transformation of the room into a sleeping apartment, were still sitting at the table talking together eagerly.
All these men were burghers of the town, and their ages varied between forty and seventy.
The grateful burghers of Orleans, too, loaded her with gifts, all which honours Joan received with quiet modesty.
The negotiations between the army and the burghers lasted five days; the town refusing to admit the King, and the King unwilling to pass the town, but unable to take it by force.
Even the besieged burghers of Orleans learned that the time of their delivery from the English was at hand.
The burghers were granted the immunity of their persons and their goods, and certain liberties for their commerce.
Next arrive as witnesses two burghers of Rouen, Peter Cusquel and John Moreaux.
Early in the year, the burghers of Rheims implored help of Joan of Arc, and not of the King, thus proving how far greater trust was placed in the hands of the Maid of Orleans, by such a town as Rheims, than in the goodwill of the King.
Whether or not the burghers of Riom were able to carry out Joan's wishes is not known.
Fearful of rousing the nobles, Rhodolph issued a decree, confirming the toleration which his father had granted the nobles, but forbidding the burghers from attending Protestant worship.
This was very adroitly done, as it did not interfere with the vassals of the rural nobles on their estates; and these burghers were freed men, over whom the nobles could claim no authority.
I wish the Sybarite burghers aye may offer to the queen Of heaven as pitiful a beast: those burghers are so mean!
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