| I'm a proud Scot, a freeman of my native Edinburgh and a UK citizen, but this law treats me as a foreigner. |
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| He is favourite to become the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year and has also been made a freeman of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by the city council. |
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| The problem of loyalty was reflected in the ceremonial developments of the act of commendation in which a freeman became a vassal. |
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| His father, also called William, was a hairdresser and was made a freeman of the city, an honour which passed to his son. |
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| Any member of the Vintners' Company is a freeman of the City of London and is still allowed to sell wine without applying for a licence. |
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| In 1706 he was apprenticed to a printer, and in 1715 he was admitted a freeman of the Stationers' Company. |
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| I think old JK will be pretty upset when he finds out I've been made a freeman of East Lothian before him. |
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| Former Geraldton mayor Phil Cooper was made the city's fifth freeman this week in recognition of his 31 years service to the local council. |
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| He shook off controversy surrounding the award to become an honorary freeman of his home borough of Stockport. |
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| But an honour that seems to mean more to him than most was being made a freeman of Salford, his native city. |
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| As indicated, the basic qualification for an intrinsic burgess, or freeman, was to be at scot and lot. |
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| Next month he will be made a freeman of his native Kilkenny. |
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| Now Scarborough Council is proposing to make the presenter a freeman, an honour awarded to only a handful of worthies, including playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. |
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| The liberal agenda in the United States is systematically working to keep white people down, freeman explained. |
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| The election is on Tuesday and freeman is rightfully concerned that his political views might infringe upon her chances. |
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| The former manager of Derby County, Nottingham Forest and, briefly, Leeds United became the first living person to be made an honorary freeman of the city of Derby. |
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| In parliamentary boroughs with freeman franchises, the power to bestow the freedom was in effect a power to create electors, a consideration which clearly shaped its use. |
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| Anybody who wants to considered a freeman must swear an oath of loyalty. |
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| From the time of the earliest settlement on the James river, the English colonies required every freeman to own a gun for self-defence. |
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| During a 20-minute ceremony attended by 600 guests, including schoolchildren, local residents and dignitaries, the Prince was invested as a freeman of the city. |
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| A freeman could further himself by becoming the client of one or more lords. |
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| The gulf between noble and ignoble was very large, but the difference between a freeman and an indentured labourer was small. |
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| Nelson was given a hero's welcome and after being sworn in as a freeman of the borough and received the massed crowd's applause. |
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| The laws include several clauses that provide six different wergild levels for the Britons, of which four are below that of freeman. |
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| In Alamannic law, the basic weregeld for a freeman is likewise 200 shillings. |
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| Any freeman so committed or detained in prison without cause being stated should be entitled to bail or be freed. |
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| The first honorary freeman of Newcastle was Sir William George Armstrong in 1886, for his great achievements, including the invention of the Armstrong Gun. |
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| In 1946, the year of Shaw's ninetieth birthday, he accepted the freedom of Dublin and became the first honorary freeman of the borough of St Pancras, London. |
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| In the United States the labourer is a freeman, lives on good substance, and being an honest man, neither fears nor envies the richest patroon about him. |
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