单词 | burgess oath |
释义 | > as lemmasburgess oath burgess oath n. now historical an oath sworn by a person on admission to the position of burgess.In Scotland in 1747, the Secession church split on the issue of the compatibility of the oath with scriptural principles (cf. Antiburgher n.). ΚΠ 1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie vi. 74 King James the Sixth..gave his Burges oath, and did inrole With his own hand within the Burges scrole And Gildrie Book his deare and worthie Name. 1700 J. B. Let. from Citizen of Glasgow to his Friend at Edinb. 9 The Obligations that ly upon us by our Burges-Oaths. 1755 Scots Mag. Aug. 409/2 This gentleman..was zealous against the burgess-oath. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iv. 2109 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXV. 1 The burgesses [of Bedford]..are still required to promise, in their Burgess Oath, that they ‘will utterly forsake and eschew for ever the usurped power and unlawful jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome, here most justly abolished.’ 1897 Sc. Antiquary 11 176 The congregation originated in 1747, the year when the Secession was divided by the Burgess Oath controversy into two Synods, Burgher and Anti-burgher. 1986 R. G. Thorne House of Commons 1790–1820 I. 433/2 He alleged that 64 freeholder votes were inadmissible, because freeholders could not take the burgess oath. < as lemmas |
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