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 BUR ( 691 ) 'BUR have either been burgomafters or echevins. Their teen0, miles weft of Oxford: W. long. x° 40', N. lat. who authority refembles that of our lord-mayor and aider51 4°'. It gives the title of earl to the noble family of Beau- men time, keep the key of the bank, and enjoy a ialary but clerc. five hundred guilders, all fe-.fts, public entertainBURG, a town of Zutphen, in the Dutch Netherlands, ofments, lituated upon the Old Iffel, about eighteen miles call of fury. &c. being defrayed out of the common treaNimeguen : E. long. 6° io/, and N. lat. 520. a dilh frequent at fea, being made of oatBURGA, a cape of Algiers in Africa, running out into BURGOO, meal, or greets, boiled in water till they burft, and the Med terranean fea. BURGAGE, an-ancient tenure in boroughs, whereby then fome butter added. the capital of Old Caftile in Spain, about the inhabitants, by cuftom, hold their lands, <&c. of BURGOS, the king, or other fuperior lord of the borough, at a one 0 hundred and ten miles 0 north of Madrid : W. long. certain yearly rent: Alfo a dwelling-houfe in a bo- 4 5', and N. lat. 42 30'. BURGOW, a town, of Swabia in Germany, about twenrough, was anciently called a burgage. weft of Auglburg : E. long. io° 20/, N. lat. BURGEON, a term ufed by gardeners in the fame ty48°miles 30'. fenfe with bud. See Bud. or Burgogne, a province or governBURGESS, an inhabitant of a borough, or one who BURGUNDY, ment in France, having Champaign on the north, and poflefles a tenement therein. In other countries, burgefs and citizen are con- Dauphine on the fouth. founded together; but with us they are diftinguilhed : BURIAL, the interment of a deceafed perfon. The rites of burial are looked upon in all countries, The word is alfo applied to the magiftrates of fome and at all times, as a debt fo facred, that fuch as netowns. Burgefs is now ordinarily ufed for the reprefenta- glected to difcharge it were thought accurfed : Hence the Romans called them jujia, and the Greeks [nomi* tive of a borough-town in parliament. BURGGRAVE properly denotes the hereditary go- nia, dikuia, hofia,~ &c. words implying the inviolable. vernor of a caftle or fortified town, chiefly in Ger- obligations which nature has laid upon the living to take care of the obfequies of the dead. Nor are we many. to wonder, that the ancient Greeks and Romans were, BURGH, See Borough. BuRGH-^o/e fignifies a contribution towards the build- extremely folicitous about the interment of their deing or repairing of caftles, or walls, for the defence of ceafed friends, fince they were ftrongly perfuaded, that a borough, or city. their fouls could not be admitted into the Elyfian fieldsBurgh-breche is properly the breaking open a burgh, till their bodies were committed to the earth; and if houfe, inclofure, ebc. and in the laws of Canute, cap. it happened that they never obtained the rites of burial, Iv. fignifies a fine impofed upon a community of a they were excluded from the happy manfions-for the town for a breach of the peace. According to Raf- term of an hundred years. For this reafon it was contallus, burgh-breche is, to be quit of trefpafles com- fidered as a duty incumbent upon all travellers who mitted againft the peace, in city or borough. Ihould meet with a dead body in their way, to caft duft or mould upon it three times, and of thefe three handBURGHERMESTERS. See Burgomaster. BURGHMASTER, among miners. See Barmaster. fuls, one at leaft was caft upon the head. The anBURGHMOTE, the court of a borough. cients likewife confidered it as a great misfortune if BURGLARY, a felonious breaking and entering into they were not laid in the fepulchres of their fathers ; the dwelling-houfe of another perfon in the night- for which reafon, fuch as died in foreign countries had : time, with an intent to commit fome felony, whether ufually their afhes brought home, and interred with the fame be executed, or not. thofe of their anceftors. But notwithftanding their The like offence committed by day, is called houfe-- great care in the burial of the dead, there were fome breaking. perfons whom they thought unworthy of that 1 aft ofBurglary is an offence excluded the benefit of clergy,. fice, and to whom therefore they.refufed it: Such ^ and may be committed by taking away goods from a were, 1. Public or private enemies. 2. Such as bedwelling-houfe, any perfon being therein; or break- trayed, or confpired againft their country. 3. Tyrants, ing any Ihop, warehoufe, &c. though in the day-time, who were always looked upon as enemies to their counand taking goods from thence of five {hillings value, if try. 4. Villains guilty of facrilege. y. Such as died no perfon be therein. in debt, whofe bodies belonged to their creditors. BURGLES, a town of Tranfilvania, about thirty miles And, 6. Some particular offenders, who fuffered canorth of Claufenburg, fubje<ft to the0 houfe 0 / of Auftria :. pital punifhment. E. long. 22 40', and N. lat. 47 40. Of thofe who were allowed the rites of burial, fome JBURGOMASTER, the chief magiftrate of the great were diftinguifhed by particular circumftances of diftowns in Flanders, Holland, and Germany. The grace attending their interment: Thus perfons killed power and jurifdidlion of the burgomafter is not the by lightening were buried apart by themfelves, being lame in all places, every town having its particular eu- thought odious to the gods; thofe who wafted their ftoms and regulations: At Amfterdam there are four patrimony, forfeited the right of being buried in the chofen by the voices of all thofe people in the fenate. fepulchres of their fathers; atd thofe who were guilty of;
 * they difpofe of all under-offices that fail in their