Burgesses

Word BURGESSES
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Definitions and meanings of "Burgesses"

What do we mean by burgesses?

An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.

A town magistrate.

A representative of a borough in the Parliament.

A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.

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The word "burgesses" in example sentences

First-term burgesses Hank Kuczenski and Mike Ciacciarella, Democrats who campaigned on promises to revamp Union City, will serve on the committee with veteran Republican Burgess Robert Neth, who lives in the area. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy. ❋ Emile Cammaerts (1915)

These meetings of the burgesses were the great social as well as political event of the Old Dominion, and gave a gathering signal to the Virginian gentry scattered far and wide on their lonely plantations. ❋ Francis Parkman (1858)

The policists, that is, the burgesses inclined to peace, repaired on their side to the provost of tradesmen to ask for his authority to assemble at the Palace or the Hotel de Ville, and to provide for security in case of any public calamity. ❋ Unknown (1830)

This act declared that those elected should be called burgesses, and should supply the place of the freemen who chose them, as do the representatives in the ❋ John Marshall (1795)

In 1619 the Virginians set up an elected legislative assembly, the house of burgesses, which is now the state legislature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It consisted of the governor, council, and deputies, or "burgesses," as they were called, chosen from the various plantations, or ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Curiously enough, so confident was the belief of the settlers that they were founding towns, that they called their representatives "burgesses," and down to 1776 the assembly continued to be known as the House of "Burgesses," although towns refused to grow in Virginia, and soon after counties were organized in 1634 the burgesses sat for counties. ❋ John Fiske (1871)

"The earl, on hearing the news, called the burgesses, who were still with him, and sent them back to Ghent with a message to the town that they should have neither peace nor treaty until he had struck off the heads of all those whom he chose. ❋ Unknown (1867)

The lieutenant governor could extract fees and kickbacks from his official duties, but he was in a constant struggle with the burgesses, who jealously guarded their power of taxation.27 ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The lieutenant governor, therefore, held the reins of power, or as much power as the burgesses did not snatch from him. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The burgesses of Newark do seem remiss in their choices of MP. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

Crowded into the galleries at the State House, the members of the Convention waited expectantly, but the burgesses, most of them Quakers, said nothing. ❋ Charles Rappleye (2010)

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