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No inhabitant of the city who had not enrolled himself as a craftsman in one of the guilds could exercise any function of burghership.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

He declines to admit men who are in every way qualified to the burghership, though every other new country is competing for such men.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

It conferred on all Hottentots and other free persons of colour lawfully residing in the Colony, the right to become burghers, and to exercise and enjoy all the privileges of burghership.

From Native Races and the War by Butler, Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth Grey)

The men received full burghership as a rule soon after arrival, exempt from the formalities and probation prescribed by law.

From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by Thomas, C. H.

The Grandi hastened to enrol themselves in the guilds, exchanging their former titles and dignities for the solid privilege of burghership.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes