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Burgess

  1. The holder of land or house within a borough.
  2. Member of a borough community, sharing in its communal privileges.
  3. The member of a town (borough) community, generally a householder paying his share of any communal dues and thus participating in communal privileges and possessing the "freedom of the borough", "burgess franchise", or "borough franchise".
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