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.
It would not mean a lot more paper, because the freeman is asterisked.
One male scold and the husbands or assumed husbands of 6 of the women were freemen, though not all at the time of the scolding presentment.
In an ancient borough, the importance of the large town gate was associated with public order, the collection of tolls and a venue for meetings of guildsmen and freemen.
As we have seen, the market was socially the most inclusive public area, where complex economic relationships between freemen as well as numerous non-freemen were transacted.
At this second stage of the process, the freemen would vote for the assistants, in order starting with the first name listed among those nominated.
As a rough guide to the proportion of adult men who enjoyed this privilege, between 1444 and 1563 the records show 78 admissions of freemen.
In this way the freemen always faced the incumbents first.
These public and private spaces were also subjected to a civic government which attempted to integrate uncontrolled activities into the society of freemen.
