Representatives vs Burgess - What's the difference?
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An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
(lb) A town magistrate.
A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
A member of the (House of Burgesses), a legislative body in the colonial America, established by (Virginia Company) to provide civil rule in the colonies.