burgage
Americannoun
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(in England) a tenure whereby burgesses or townspeople held lands or tenements of the king or other lord, usually for a fixed money rent.
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(in Scotland) tenure directly from the crown of property in royal burghs in return for the service of watching and warding.
noun
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(in England) tenure of land or tenement in a town or city, which originally involved a fixed money rent
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(in Scotland) the tenure of land direct from the crown in Scottish royal burghs in return for watching and warding
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Etymology
Origin of burgage
1250–1300; Middle English borgage < Anglo-French borgage, burgage or Anglo-Latin burgāgium; see burgh, -age
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"If thou wilt follow me, good fellow," said the Black Douglas, "I will change thy leathern apron for a knight's girdle, and thy burgage tenement for an hundred pound land to maintain thy rank withal."
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
On the 9th of June 1405 Chicheley was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
After the Act for the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1748 the portion of Auchterarder strictly burghal ceased to have titles completed in the burgage form.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
The bishop of Bath held Chard in 1086, and his successor granted in 1234 the first charter which made Chard a free borough, each burgage paying a rent of 12d.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
The latter he acquired by purchasing the burgage tenures of Old Sarum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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