- In
English law, the term headborough, head-borough, borough-head, borrowhead, or
chief pledge,
referred historically to the head of the legal, administrative...
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privileged town);
their equivalent to the
tithingman was
therefore a
borsholder, borough-holder or headborough. The
Norman Conquest introduced the feudal...
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individuals of the tithing. In some
counties the
headborough was
called "
Borsholder", but the
whole of Mr Viner's
duties in
regard to this
office are transferred...
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Chart was in the area now
called Pizien Well and a mace
called the Dumb
Borsholder, now
hanging in the Church, is ****ociated with this manor. A
right to...
