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borga, ~us [AS borg, borh ; cf. bortreminga, friborga] , frankpledge, tithing, group of households w. collective legal responsibility (in Kent & Sussex a territorial unit). 1177 de dimidia marca de Toki cum ~o, quia non habuit quem plegiavit Pipe (Berks) 49; 1199 H. de Rieis et ejus ~us reddunt compotum de xx s. pro fuga Radulfi Pipe (Kent) 67; 1230 ~a de Hatfeld’ debet dim. m. pro quodam mortuo sepulto sine visu coronatoris Pipe (Suss) 11; 1236 sunt xiiij borgi, sc.: Bendrege [etc.] Cust. Battle 126 (v. borgesalder); c1250 si contingat wardas facere talagium aut donum abbati dare in †brog’ de Litlemun[in]gham Reg. S. Aug. 431; 1275 ballivus ‥ excaitoris cepit ‥ de borgha de Brokesgate, que manu cepit Galfridum H. et non habuit coram justiciariis, iiij m. Hund. (Kent) I 201; comes Glovernie appropriavit sibi borgham de Heghardr’, que est quarta pars hundredi Ib. 202; 1275 Johannes Peverel habet unam ~am de feodo Wincestr’ pertinens [sic] ad dim. hundredum [de la Denne] et habet assisam panis et cervisie Ib. (Suss) II 207; 1275 in ~a de Wadeherst sunt xv virgate dim. et j ferling’ terre native (Ext. Tarring, Suss) Gavelkind 22; 1286 si latro captus sit in villa domini, custodietur in molendino domini per custum borgh’ de Wycham [Kent] CoramR 98 r. 19; 1313 manerium de Estwell [Kent] est infra precinctum hundredi regis de Estri in borgha de Soles PQW 318a (cf. ib. 339a); 1313 si cum eo non fuisset in servicio ‥ esset in borgha; et qui convictus est de felonia et sit in borgha, tota borgha in misericordia Eyre Kent 95; nulla habuerunt catalla nec fuerunt in burgo, quia extranei Ib. 61; 1315 alii in borwa predicta residentes Year Bk. XVII (Selden Soc. XLI) 83; 1326 borghesalder et quatuor homines de qualibet borgha ‥ tempore quo ipsi ad turnos vicecomitis ‥ ad ea que visum franci plegii contingebant presentanda venerunt Cl 143 m. 15 (cf. Reg. S. Aug. 360); 1354 communitati burge de Recolvre Lit. Cant. II 322; 1372 debet sectam ‥ ad hundredum domini regis de Brigge [Bridge by Canterbury] prout premunitus fuerit per borgham IMisc 201/5; 1535 de redditu custumariorum tenencium ibidem per annum vocato warkeland, viz. in burg’ de Upperton [in Eastbourne, Suss] vj li‥ Rutland MSS (Visus Comp. Salop etc. p. 45).

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