burgesses
noun
- 1
An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
- 2
A town magistrate.
- 3
A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
- 4
A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.
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