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Burgage is a
medieval land term used in
Great Britain and Ireland, well
established by the 13th century. A
burgage was a town ("borough" or "burgh") rental...
- borough, a
patron who
bought all the
burgages had
absolute control. At
election time he
would simply convey the
burgages to his
relatives and friends, and...
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private citizens or groups. Socage, a
feudal tax
system based on land rent.
Burgage, a
feudal tax
system based on land rent. Some prin****lities
taxed windows...
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While not at
school or college,
Byron lived at his mother's residence,
Burgage Manor in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
While there, he
cultivated friendships...
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These plots were
known as feus or in
royal burghs such as
Lanark as
burgages. Each
burgage in a
burgh was the same size,
though the size
varied between burghs...
- work for
tradesmen and merchants. By 1252 the town had
approximately 240
burgages (town
rental properties owned by a king or lord), as well as shops, stalls...
- gain
immunity from
prosecution by his
creditors he
bought a
number of
burgages in the
rotten borough of
Bramber in Sus****,
which enabled him to be elected...
- of new
houses set on equal-sized
plots of land -
burgage plots. At the
opposite end of the
burgage plot
there is
often a back lane
which gives the original...
- a
borough simply because the de
Limsey Lord of the
Manor offered free
burgage tenure where residents were free, rent-paying burgesses,
rather than villeins...
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properties of
varying scale,
colour and
detail which were
built on long,
narrow burgage plots probably of
medieval origin. The 18th
century façade of the Wynnstay...
