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How to use burgage in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word burgage? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Warkworth was promoted as a borough in the C12, and long but narrow burgage plots line the main street.
Nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless the fee-farm owes knight's service.
Every holder of burgage lands must perform suit for them at the four General Courts.
It has been the practice in Ipswich from antiquity that no tenant of tenements in the town held by free burgage do homage or fealty for them to the property's chief lord.
The Portmanmoot, as it was known, held major sessions every second Thursday to hear pleas of the crown, pleas initiated by royal writ, and pleas relating to burgage tenements.
Off each side would be the long narrow burgage plots for the traders and craftsmen that can still be discerned today.
Such burgage plots, as they are called, would be arranged one after the other along the streets of the new town.
He laid out the beautiful mile-long curving High Street with set width burgage plots each side to accommodate the traders and craftsmen.
It appears to occupy a medieval burgage plot, the boundary still hinted at in the remains of a red sandstone wall running down the north side of the garden.
We understand that there are plans to breach the outer walls and amalgamate the burgage plots by removing internal walls prior to applications for development.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was called a borough in 1461, when there are also traces of burgage tenure.
The defendant had rejected the vote offered by the plaintiff, he claiming the right as a burgage tenant.
Nor will we have the custody of such fee farm, socage, or burgage unless such fee farm owe knight's service.
Thus tenure at a money rent would become the typical tenure of a burgage tenement.
At Hereford the reeves consent was necessary when a burgage was to be sold, and he took a third of the price.
Against a background of villeinage and week-work, the borough begins to stand out as the scene of burgage tenure.
On the 9th of January 1405 he found time to attend a court at Higham Ferrers and be admitted to a burgage there.
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