Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 40
rhs are mentioned in the early laws of England,but by this time the signification of the word had becomeextended, so that it was frequently applied not only to amoated mound but to the town that had sprung up aroundit. By the laws of ^Ethelstan, every burh was to be re-paired within fourteen days… … SECXION CASTLE HILL MEXBOROUGL-1 to death. Burh-bryce was the violation of a castle or dwell-ing. Burh-bote, a payment for keeping burhs or fortressesin a state of defence, was a branch of the well-known trinoda necessitas. Originally, the English burh was afortified house, the Domus defensabilis…
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