In þis burhwas wuniende a meiden swiðe ȝung of ȝeres, two wone of twenti.
Plan and section of a burh of the eleventh century at Laughton-en-Le-Morthen, Yorks.
Plan and section of a burh of the eleventh century at Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Yorks 74 (From G.
The sanctity of the burh was enjoyed by all the dwellings of the king, at first perhaps only during his term of residence.
The burh generally shows signs of having been originally a village settlement, surrounded by open fields, of which the borough boundary before 1835 will suggest the outline.
Over the burh or port was set a reeve, a royal officer answerable to the king for his dues from the burh, his rents for lands and houses, his customs on commerce, his share of the profits from judicial fines.
At least from the 10th century the burh had a "moot" or court, the relation of which to the other courts is matter of speculation.
Offences in disturbance of the peace of the burh were punished by higher fines than breaches of the peace of the "ham" or ordinary dwelling.
The burh was provided by law with a mint and royal moneyers and exchangers, with an authorized scale for weights and measures.
While the "peace" of the Germanic assembly was essentially temporary, the "peace" of the burh was sacred all the year round.
The tribal burh was protected by an earthen wall, and a general obligation to build and maintain burhs at the royal command was enforced by Anglo-Saxon law.
The burh of the men of West Kent was Hrofesceaster (Durobrivae), Rochester, and many other ceasters mark the existence of a Roman camp occupied by an early English burh.
Across the original Long Causeway on the Red Lees, with the burh entrenchments immediately at his back, was the valiant Turketul, the Chancellor, with the warriors of Mercia and London opposite Round Hill and Mereclough.
The roads down from the burh are at Rooley and at Brownside and at Red Lees by the Long Causeway leading to Mereclough.
The land area protected by each burh became known as a "shire".
Peada had founded a religious settlement at Burh or Medehampstead which is better known as Peterborough, a name bestowed on it after its restoration in 970.
Seo burh weardh sydhdhan on odhre st['o]we getimbrod, and mid dham Sarasceniscum gesett.
Ac se cyning, dhadha he this geaxode, sende his here to, and tha manslagan fordyde, and heoraburh forbaernde.
It is to this aspect as the great model burh that the Saxon laws of London printed by Thorpe refer.
As to the Danes holding the burh with London, see above, p.
The burh was to be sacred from private quarrels--"the King's house-peace prevails in the streets.
Grants of property run, "within Burh and without Burh, on Street and off Street.
Therefore if a burh were the same thing as a motte, there ought to be two mottes at Hertford, one on each side of the river; whereas there is only one, and that forms part of the works of the Norman castle.
Burh is always used for those of Edward and Ethelfleda, faesten (fastness) or geweorc (work) for those of the Danes.
We have already noticed the charter of Ethelred and Ethelfleda which tells of the building of the burh at Worcester.
That the burh at Dover was of the nature of a town, with houses in it, is confirmed by the poem of Guy of Amiens, who says that when King William entered the castrum, he ordered the English to evacuate their houses.
But the whole analogy of the word burh makes it certain that by the time of Edward it meant a fortified town.
At Willington the Danes proposed to establish their winter quarters in 921, and an extensive burh was thrown up for the purpose.
It is now being generally accepted that the usual form of burh or borough was that of a rectangular enclosure surrounded by a rampart and an external ditch, the area being of any dimensions up to 20 or 30 acres or more.
The burh was thus a comparatively slight affair when compared with earthworks which had preceded it.
The discomfited Danes, much lessened in numbers, retreated up the river, and near the junction of the Ivel with the main stream threw up a smaller burh which now bears the name of Gannock's Castle, near Tempsford.
The enclosure was directly derived from the rectangular castra of Roman times, descended through the Anglo-Saxon burh and the Norman bailey.
Probably this mound was protected by palisades the same as the rampart, but Edward, flushed by his former success, stormed the burh and captured it with terrible loss to the routed garrison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
