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What was burgess?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/29/2022

Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough (England) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons. The term was also used in some of the original American colonies, notably for the first elected legislature, the Virginia House of Burgesses.

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Joanne Skiles

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3y ago

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