burghs in English
Towns could be burghs of barony under a feudal superior.
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1. David I is traditionally credited with the first foundations of royal Burghs; after 1450, Burghs founded by subjects (Burghs of barony and Burghs of regality) became more numerous
2. Synonyms for Burghs in Free Thesaurus
3. Burgesses were merchants or craftsmen who owned property in burghs and were allowed to trade in burghs free of charge
4. Burghs haed richts tae representation in the
5. They were divided into royal Burghs, holding of the Crown, and Burghs of regality and barony, holding of subject superiors, clerical …
6. Later many Burghs became important for local government purposes
7. Then King David I created Burghs – because he needed money
8. Kilmarnock Burghs was a district of Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1918
9. Clyde Burghs, also known as Glasgow Burghs, was a district of Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 to 1832
10. The Binary Burghs is a desert region on an unknown planet
11. Some Burghs had grids of streets laid out and they became busy towns
12. Those Burghs would have received it as a gift or purchased it
13. Source for information on Burghs: The Oxford Companion to British History dictionary.
14. Meetings of the royal Burghs in Scotland went back to the 14th cent
15. Burghs, a variant spelling of boroughs, is the Scottish term for privileged towns
16. The Burghs had a permanent garrison (a group of soldiers who defended a single place)
17. Burghs were essentially urban settlements which enjoyed trading privileges from medieval times until 1832 and which regulated their own affairs to a greater or lesser extent (depending on the type of burgh concerned) until the abolition of Scottish Burghs in 1975.
18. Burghs were originally towns which had legal and trading rights and privileges granted by royal charter
19. Although abolished in law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal Burghs
20. Maist ryal Burghs hauds the teetle for ceremonial purposes, wi the merkit exception o the Scots ceeties.
21. Burgh (plural Burghs) (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names)
22. Aberdeen during the early modem period comprised of two distinct Burghs–Old Aberdeen, the original settlement, and New Aberdeen
23. Most royal Burghs were either created by the Crown, or upgraded from another status, such as burgh of barony
24. The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs Standardization and Lexical Bundles (1380-1560) Joanna Kopaczyk Oxford Studies in Language and Law
25. The conventions were in addition to the representation of the Burghs in the Scottish Parliament and, after 1707, the British Parliament.
26. The Scottish Burghs seem to have had some features for which no direct analogies are to be found amongst English towns
27. Dunfermline Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974
28. As discrete classes of burgh emerged, the royal Burghs—originally distinctive because they were on royal lands—acquired a monopoly of foreign trade.
29. Burgh Records (1205-1975) Burghs were essentially urban settlements with trading privileges and varying powers to regulate the affairs of the town
30. The heid o a Burgh is cried a Provost.Maist ryal Burghs hauds the teetle for ceremonial purposes, wi the merkit exception o the Scots ceeties.
31. Burghs produced characteristic forms of historical record, such as court books, guild records, registers of deeds, financial accounts, and, latterly, records of burgh institutions such as schools and libraries.
32. Aberdeen originated as two separate burghs: Old Aberdeen, the cathedral and university settlement on the Don, and New Aberdeen, the neighbouring trading and fishing village on the Dee.
33. The constituency comprised the Burghs of Stirling in Stirlingshire, Dunfermline, and Inverkeithing in Fife, Queensferry, in Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), and Culross, which was an exclave of Perthshire, transferring to Fife in 1889
34. De Burghs Bridge is a road bridge that carries the Lane Cove Road, part of the A3, across the Lane Cove River in Macquarie Park, Sydney, Australia.The bridge stretches from Macquarie Park in the south to West Pymble in the north.
35. All the Burghs sent petitions for the abolition of slavery to the 1830 Parliament.41 The 1830 Michaelmas elections were closely contested throughout the district, and a double return of councillors at Lochmaben, where John Irving Henderson succeeded Robert Henderson as provost, was referred to the court of session, which on 17 Dec
36. The Scottish Reform Act added the ‘flourishing’ seaport of Peterhead (the most easterly point of land in Scotland) to the five existing Burghs to create a constituency with 777 registered electors at the general election of 1832.54 The Liberal Andrew Leith Hay of Rannes, Aberdeenshire, comfortably defeated a Conservative and another Liberal
37. A bailie or baillie is a civic officer in the local government of Scotland.The position arose in the burghs, where Bailies formerly held a post similar to that of an alderman or magistrate (see bailiff).Baillies appointed the High Constables in Edinburgh, Leith and Perth.Modern Bailies exist in Scottish local councils, with the position being a courtesy title and appointees often requested to