An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs Or Boroughs

Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burghs or Boroughs: Shewing Their Original, and Whence, and From Whom, They Received Their Liberties, Privileges, and Immunities; What They Were, and What Made and Constituted a Free Burgh and Free Burgesses We may note rom both the e lafi towns, there was not then much difference between a City and Burgh, both appellations being given to one and the fame town; Lain/er never had Bilhops, and at this time. Sir new. Glace/7n ha none, the great diitinétion grew, after Cgie, fl all cities were made counties by charter. 3233; cf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.