BURGESS (Med. Lat. burgensis, from burgus, a borough, a town)

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BURGESS (Med. Lat. burgensis, from burgus, a borough, a town) , a term, in its earliest sense, meaning an inhabitant of a borough, one who occupied a tenement therein, but now applied solely to a registered parliamentary, or more strictly, municipal voter. An early use of the word was to denote a member elected to

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

by his fellow citizens in a borough. In some of the American colonies (e.g. Virginia), a " burgess " was a member of the legislative

body

BODY

, which was termed the "

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Burgesses." Previously to the Municipal Reform Act 1835, burgess was an official title in some English boroughs, and in this sense is still used in some of the states of the United States, as in Connecticut, New

Jersey

JERSEY
JERSEY, EARLS OF

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

. The Burgess-roll is the

or official

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
_1789_1846_.html">LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

of burgesses in a borough.

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