| Cloth manufacture employed a large number of townsmen in its various stages. |
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| The townsmen invested in communal halls, one for each of the four guilds, which served social, charitable, and religious purposes. |
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| From the square townsmen view the church's apse and radiating symmetrical apsidal chapels. |
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| In 1287 the bishop and the king were suing the townsmen for infringing various traditional lordly rights. |
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| Harrod blamed the Bishop for exploiting hostilities between groups of townsmen, so as to consolidate his own lordship over the borough. |
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| He and his partner continue to thuggishly interrogate the local townsmen, attempting to pin the crime on the local town dunce. |
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| A royal charter of 1447 was acquired by the townsmen in order to try to overcome local disputes. |
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| The nonversation of the two horsemen standing upon the shoulders of their townsmen was quick and laconic. |
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| Whether this reeve consulted informally with the more important townsmen, we can only speculate. |
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| It would seem that on request of the King, a ship had to be made to fulfil the obligations of the townsmen. |
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| In any case, townsmen were loathe to serve in parliament, no matter what the pay. |
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| In medieval times, only carefully selected townsmen were allowed to guard the town gates. |
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| He was with a group of Boston townsmen taunting Redcoats on sentry duty that snowy night. |
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| Audiences of monks, warriors, young lovers, and townsmen gaze raptly at this appealing and even bizarre sight. |
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| In the same way that Prague's townsmen and nobility feasted, now feast guests for all over the world. |
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| As Sam fights off the mob of townsmen after him, Mary attempts to discover the truth in order to save Sam's life. |
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| By the middle of the 16th century the dining-out habit was well established among townsmen of all classes. |
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| Economy Since Maldon's residents owned very little agricultural land at the time of Domesday, it does not seem that most townsmen earned a living from farming. |
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| The charter gave Swansea the status of a borough, granting the townsmen, called burgesses certain rights to develop the area. |
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| Peasants were tied to the land and townsmen were forced to take on their fathers' occupations. |
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| However, the preservation of privileges for nobles enrages the townsmen and villagers, who chase and massacre Provleptis and other nobles, ransacking their properties. |
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| Back in Pittsburgh, when local police and National Guard units were reluctant to act against their fellow townsmen, Pennsylvania Gov. John F. Hartranft called in guardsmen from Philadelphia. |
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| For Zacchaeus, it must have been an stunning experience to hear himself called by his name, a name which many of his townsmen spoke with contempt. |
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| In Asia, 700 million townsmen, which corresponds there too to half of the urban population, does not have access to drinking water, and 800 million is not connected to a system of cleansing. |
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| I immediately understood that this girl, who had not even been born when her fellow townsmen were called to break Bucharest, bore a stigma against her will. |
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| Admittedly the coldish temperature, 12°C or so at the altitude of 560m, the sky encumbered by black clouds did not support the blooming of townsmen and tourists. |
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| During the 12th and 13th centuries, the ranks of the townsmen expanded greatly as existing towns grew and new population centres were founded. |
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| Other sections of society included the nobility, clergy, and townsmen. |
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| Religious motivation for fighting tyranny transcended socioeconomic lines to encompass rich and poor, men and women, frontiersmen and townsmen, farmers and merchants. |
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