The point of attack was the town of Athenry, the chief fortified stronghold of the de Burghs and Berminghams in that region.
A contest very similar to that which was waged in Connaught between the O'Conors and de Burghs was consequently going on in Munster at the same time, between the old inhabitants and the new claimants, of all the three classes just indicated.
The transference of the imperial authority beyond the Alps had enabled the burghs of Lombardy and Tuscany to establish a form of self-government.
Their subjugation of the Tuscan burghs to Florence was itself part of a grand republican policy.
The force which the burghs acquired as industrial communities was soon turned against these nobles.
They met at Dalkeith, and summoned the representatives of the counties and the burghs to assemble and consult with them on the matter.
Meanwhile another seat had been lost to Ministers by the wholly unexpected return of the Unionist candidate in Leith Burghs (Chron.
These burghs were of great importance in the state, and, as the burgesses of the royal burghs were all vassals holding direct from the Crown, they acted in some sort as a check on the growing power of the nobles.
The members for the burghs were to be elected by householders in the burghs paying 10l.
He thus gave great offence to the native chiefs; but he did not forget the interests of the Commons, for he increased the number of the royal burghs and granted many privileges and immunities to the burghers.
Only the royal burghswere represented at all, and these were grouped together and returned one member only for each group.
To this end three new burghs were founded, and the lands of all chiefs who could not show written titles were declared forfeited.
The Desmonds and De Burghs still reigned undisputed and unchallenged over their several remote lordships.
At one time the De Burghs were by far the largest landowners in Ireland.
De Courcy failed, but the De Burghs were wilier and more successful.
Out of the seventy royal burghs in Scotland no fewer than eighteen are situated in the shire.
There is no evidence forthcoming that the De Burghs in the fourteenth century were more reverent than De Prendergast, De Courci, or the De Lascis of the invasion period in their interpretation of the obligations of Feudal allegiance.
The De Burghswere established in the fortress of Galway and in the middle plain of Connacht.
It is further probable that Feudal law, so far as it could subject the De Burghs to the dominion of an absent prince, found little favour with them.
There was not much use for any of these languages in Connacht, where the De Burghsand other Feudal settlers led Irish armies and intermarried with Irish families.
The decline of the Feudal regime was as much cause as effect of the estrangement of the De Burghs from the English interest.
And Arthur on his part, over the land gan march; the land he through passed, and the burghs he consumed, goods he took enow, and much folk he there slew.
Vortiger in this land was raised to be king; all the strong burghs stood in his hand; five-and-twenty years he was king here.
But all his burghs he shall deliver to us, if he will enjoy his life, or else is sorrow given to him.
Sutherland is a close county; but the Northern Burghs are not rotten burghs; on the contrary, they possess an independent and intelligent constituency; and in scarce any part of Scotland is the Free Church equally strong.
We ourselves have heard it twice urged on the unpopular side,--once when the rotten burghs were nodding to their fall, and once when an unrestricted patronage was imperilled by the encroachments of the Veto.
It must not, however, be supposed that at this epoch the liberties of the burghs were fully developed.
Otto encouraged this revolution by placing the enclosures of the chiefburghs beyond the jurisdiction of the counts.
Under their consuls the Italian burghs rose to a great height of prosperity and splendour.
The next great chapter in the history of Italian evolution is the war of the burghs against the nobles.
A network of party policy embraces and dominates the burghs of Italy, bringing the most distant centres into relation, and by the very division of the country augmenting the sense of nationality.
Still, speaking generally, the age of independence for the burghshad only begun when Heribert from Milan undertook the earliest organization of a force that was to become paramount in peace and war.
The Chamberlain’s Court had also a jurisdiction over the burghs in matters respecting the trade and general policy of the kingdom.
Conventions of Burghs and Shires were now held by Monk, who, leading his army of occupation south in January 1660, left the Resolutioners and Protesters standing at gaze, as hostile as ever, awaiting what thing should befall.
Bruce's inclusion of representatives of the Burghs in the first regular Scottish Parliament (at Cambuskenneth in 1326) was a great step forward in the constitutional existence of the country.
It was also decided that landholders and the burghs should drill and arm their tenants and dependants--if Protestant.
In manyburghs the landed interest in their neighbourhood was predominant; in most counties it returned members in the interests of agriculture.
The descendant of a hundred and fifty De Burghs to be rejected by a city merchant's daughter!
The ancient rights of voters, in burghs not disfranchised, were partially preserved, but provision was made for their gradual extinction.
In process of time, as trade fluctuated, drying up old channels and opening new, many of the ancient cities and burghs fell into decay.
An East India Prince, the Nabob of Arcot, once owned burghs entitled to twenty members of Parliament; and through his English agent, who held the parchment titles, he sent that number to the Commons.
Henry Erskine as Lord Advocate, and in the month of April, 1784, was elected to represent the Glasgow District of Burghs in Parliament, where he took an active share in all the important transactions of the time.
Sorry I am to say that, by a decision of your Lordships, magistrates of burghs and Sheriffs of counties have been found entitled to whip and imprison British subjects without a jury.
Pinkerton is of opinion that the magistrates of royal burghs might upon this, and perhaps other occasions, have attended at the bar of parliament with their offers of money.
The burgesses, the tenants, the resiants of the king's burghs and manors in ancient demesne, owed neither suit nor service to the hundred leet.
The twelve lagemen in the two latter burghs were probably hereditary aldermen.
He was elected member for the Kirkaldy district of burghs in 1741.
He was for many years a member of Parliament, having been elected for the Dysart burghs in 1722, and subsequently for the counties of Sutherland and Fife.
The more modern convention of royal burghs (which appeared as a judicial persona in the Court of Session so late as 1839) probably dates from the act of James III.
Union the number of members for royal burghs was fixed at fifteen, who were elected in Edinburgh by the magistrates and town council, and in the groups of burghs by delegates chosen ad hoc.
In that year (by an arrangement with the convention of burghs) certain groups of burghs returned one member, Edinburgh returning two.
The burghs were represented in the judicial committee, and in the committee on articles appointed during the reign of James V.
The act mentions that the royal burghs as an estate of the kingdom contributed one-sixth part of all public impositions, and were obliged to build and maintain prison-houses.
Cromwell assigned ten members to the Scottish burghs in the second parliament of Three Nations (1654).
In Scotland burghs or burrows are divided into royal burghs, burghsof regality and burghs of barony.
Burghs of regality and of barony held in vassalage of some great lordship, lay or ecclesiastical, but were always in theory or in practice created by crown grant.
After the Reformation, in spite of the annexation of kirk lands to the crown, and the increased burdens laid on temporal lands, the proportion of general taxation borne by the burghs (viz.
The trade history of the free burghs is very important.
A surfeit of partan-pie, after the triumphant termination of a law-suit, threw the burghs into a state of anarchy.
I have got no interest, and if I had any, there are no nomination burghs in Scotland.
Young, eager, and enthusiastic, he determined to rescue himself from obscurity; and the present state of the Dreepdaily burghs appeared to offer a most tempting opportunity.
Hark ye, Dunshunner, more than half of the Scottish burghs are at this moment held by nominees!
The consequence was, that the threeburghs were involved in a desperate feud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burghs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
