0 a person who has been given particular special rights in a city, as an honour:
Paul McCartney was made a freeman of the City of Liverpool.
They preserved the archaic distinction between ' freemen ', whether urban ' burgesses ' or rural yeomen, and the non-free.
Some items of business such as apprenticeship indentures, freemen's admissions, or subsidy payments were recorded so that they could be consulted to settle disputes.
Social life became more economically stratified between rich and poor in the south, landowners and freemen (those who did not own land).
That council had comprised men of property - masters of families and freemen, not all subjects - who became part of the government they created.
This court had acted as a bank holding the inheritance of freemen's children in trust.
To be a freeman of a guild or company, and hence of a city, was certainly to be a member of an exclusive group.
The social codes of the late empire did not consider pain a sensation befitting freemen.
These public and private spaces were also subjected to a civic government which attempted to integrate uncontrolled activities into the society of freemen.
