free burghershipn.
/ˌfriː ˈbəːɡəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈˌfri ˈbərɡərˌʃɪp/ Now rare (historical in later use).
The state or fact of being a free burgher; citizenship.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen
burgessy1340
civilityc1384
franchisea1400
burgess-shipa1450
free burghership?1555
citizenship1611
cit1679
burghership1725
citizenhood1851
?1555 M. Coverdale tr. Hope of Faythful vii. 38 Our conuersacion, freburgershipp or dwellyng, is in heauen.
1858 Cape Monthly Mag. Mar. 147 Requiring one Eksteen, who had received..free burghership, to go back into the Company's service, at his wages of nine guilders a month.
1877 J. Noble S. Afr. Past & Present 7 Their faithful services after a while securing for them the rights of free burghership.
1881 S. Walpole Electorate & Legislature iii. 53 When the position of a member of Parliament became a privilege, rich men evaded the law by being admitted to the free burghership of the town.
1909 Times 23 June 8/5 300 years after the creation of the See [of Wells] King John granted free burghership to the city.
1925 H. W. Horwill Usages Amer. Constit. ix. 169 The requirement [for a member of the House of Commons to be a resident of the county or borough which he represented]..began to lapse in Tudor times, when the statute was evaded by the admission of strangers to free burghership.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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