Voorbeelden van burgher

• A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse. 

• At these meetings also the burghers were unanimous in their decision not to give up their independence. 

• Its bell summoned the burghers to council or arms. 

• Should the burghers be called out to action, they must supply themselves with provisions to last fourteen days. 

• Wounded soldiers and burghers were lifted out of the grass and carried tenderly to the ambulance waggons. 

• Notions of the liberty of guilds, burghers and even migrants remained an obstacle.

• The councils followed on the other hand a multilayered, participatory model in their attempt to involve all resident burghers in government.

• The burghers had grown strong in feudal society and wanted a suitable position among the estates.

• The use of physical force against burghers was perceived as illegitimate violence.

• They were kept by burghers a with a licence to import wines and to sell them, both to other merchants and on the premises.

• Punishment of burghers was in all cases less important than mediation between offenders.

• A consequence of this revolution was that soldiers took over the responsibility for law enforcement and keeping the peace from burghers.

• What was at stake for burghers was the defence of their own political power in the context of early modern state formation.

• The stocks, for example, were usually located in front of the town hall, and a jail cell inside served to imprison disobedient burghers.

• They seem to have been patronized primarily by men from the nobility, wealthy burghers and 'non-nobles of high standing'.

• There also existed a certain degree of co-operation between the urban government and the burghers in view of safeguarding urban stability.

• However, the religious issue having been solved, the burgher opposition lacked the impetus and coherence to challenge the city council.

• He not only sought to discipline burghers and students but also aspired to become a policeman of knowledge.

• Even second and third time offenders could avoid corporal punishment if they were able to organize supplications from other burghers on their behalf.

• This meant, among other things, that the state could not afford to tolerate lazy, sickly, disorderly, schnapps-drinking burghers.