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thefe burgefles, notice is taken of bordarii foccomanni, &c. as 

 aflifting the burgefles to pay the cuftoms or rents due by them*. 

 The burgefles indifcriminately are every where mentioned as 

 yielding military fervice, and fubjecl to the burdens attending 

 it, according to a certain modus, eftablifhed, as it mould feem, 

 by cuftom chiefly f . And citizens likewife partook of the fports 

 and amufements of the noblefle of the country J. 



IN the country, the fame ftate of perfons appears. We do 

 not, indeed, find the term burgeffes applied to them. But there 

 are numbers of people mentioned among the inhabitants of the 

 country, that feem to differ in no refpecl from burgefles, except 

 in wanting that name, which, it is evident, the nature of their 

 place of refidence could not admit of giving them. Thus, we 



y 2 find 



" pacem fuam infra&am, heinfaram et foreftellum. Quicunque horum unum Feciflet, 

 " emendab. 100 fol. regi, cujufcunque homo fuiflet." Every mafura, likewife, was 

 obliged to fend a man to attend when the king hunted. In defcribing the royal manor 

 of Suchlie, it is faid, " In Wireceftre unus burgenfis, fed nil reddit." 



* IN Huntedone, it is faid, " T. R. E. fuerunt et funt modo 116 burgenfes, confue- 

 " tud. omnes et geld, regis reddentes ; et fub eis funt 100 bordarii, qui adjuvant eos ad 

 " perfolutionem geldi. De his tmrgenfibus haburt fan&us Benediftus de RAMSEY, 10 

 " cum fac. et ibc. et omni confuet." Borde or borderie is an old French word, fignify- 

 ing a " domain aux champs, deftine" pour le menage, labourage, et culture." Hence 

 bordelage in the French law. AK.GOU. lib. 2. cap. 4. 



f- OF the burgefles of Hereforde, it is faid, " Qui equum habebat ter in anno, per- 

 " gebat cum vicecomite ad placita, et ad hundrez. ad Urmelavia." Again, " Burgen- 

 " fis cum caballo ferviens cum moriebatur, habeb. rex equum et artna ejus. De eo qui 

 " non habeb. equum, fi moreretur, habeb. rex aut 10 folid. aut terrain ejus cum do- 



" mibus. Si vicecomes iret in Wales cum exercitu, ibant hi homines cum eo. 



" Quod fi ire juflus, non iret, emendab. regi 40 lolid." Exon tantum geldab. quando 

 London, York, et Winton, geldab. " et hoc erat dimid. mark, argenti AD OPCS MIH- 

 " TARE. Quando expeditio ibat per terrain, ierviebat haec CIVITAS QUANTUM 5 HIDA. 

 " TERR^:." Warwick fent a contingent of 10 burgefles to aflift ia a war at land, and 

 4 boatfwains, or 4 lib. of pence in a war at fea. " Qui monitus, non ibat," paid 100 

 folidi. Wilton fent a man for every five hides, Ledcceilre fent 12 as a contingent, &c. 

 <ts'c. 



t " ET cives London!*- habeant fugationes fiias ad fugandum, ficut melius et plenius 

 '' habuerunt anteceflbres eorum fcilicet in Chiltre, et Middlefexe, et Surreie." Char- 

 ter by Infpeximus of HEN. I. and HEN. II. and RICH. I. 



