burgess

Converse of object

• admit: Andrew junior was admitted burgess of Brechin on 18th October 1736.
• grant: Richard, earl of Cornwall granted the burgesses a guild merchant in 1268.
• send: They all sent burgesses to Parliament from medieval times.
• become: He had become a burgess on 20th April 1765.
• make: In the previous year Ward, then living at St Annes, was made a burgess by order of the mayor.
• have: The Town of Henley was burnt down but quickly recovered for in 1295 it had 69 burgesses.

Converse of subject

• hold: M ( formerly Prescriptive ) Sun; mercatum, recorded 7 Sept 1201, held by burgesses of Wells.
• elect: The municipal authorities are a mayor, one justice, and two bailiffs, all elected annually by the resident burgesses.

Adjective modifier

• honorary: In the long list of the honorary burgesses of his suite is found the name of Samuel Pepys.
• assistant: Assistant burgesses retain their landholders ' rights, but on becoming capital burgesses they forfeit both assistant burgesses ' and landholders ' rights.
• free: It returns two members to parliament; the right of election is vested in about 200 free burgesses.
• new: In Dingwall, new burgesses could stay for ten years without paying rent.
• other: The traders or merchants sought naturally to enhance their status by banding together ( at the expense of other burgesses ).
• wealthy: The donor might be a manorial lord or wealthy burgess.

Modifies a noun

• hill: Group: Members Posts: 247 Joined: 6-September 05 From: burgess hill Member No.
• ticket: When they appear on 18th century burgess tickets, the arms are in color for the first time.
• roll: For some of the Scottish burghs, there are apprentice rolls and burgess rolls.

Noun used with modifier

• capital: It gave the king the power to dismiss capital burgesses he did not approve of.
• merchant: The Merchant Maiden Hospital was founded in 1695 for the education of daughters of decayed merchant burgesses of Edinburgh.

Preposition: of

town: When they had learned their trade, they might be admitted as burgesses of the town and to membership of trade and merchant guilds.