| And also I shall have within a year and a day a freehold within the town, at which I may be summoned, or else lose my burgess status forever. |
| It does not even mean that each burgess holds immediately of the king, the communitas intervening as farmer of the kings rents. |
| Some years ago, your good town did me the honour of making me an honorary burgess. |
| Every man who strives to become a burgess of this town shall first be examined under oath upon a Book that he is no bondman, but free-born and of free status. |
| As indicated, the basic qualification for an intrinsic burgess, or freeman, was to be at scot and lot. |
| George Wythe was born in Elizabeth City, his father having been a burgess from that county. |
