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or forced labour, a privilege which later extended to the Dutch East Indies. Effectively, only burghers could join the city guard in Amsterdam because in order to join, guardsmen had to purchase their own expensive equipment. Membership in the guard was often a stepping stone to political positions.
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Proof of ownership of property in a given town – that is, purchase of a house or land or acquisition of the same by marriage to the daughter or widow of a burgher – was a significant condition for acceptance as a
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Any crime against a burgher was taken as a crime against the city community. In Switzerland, if a burgher was assassinated, the other burghers had the right to bring the alleged murderer to trial by judicial combat.
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town. Burghers formed the pool from which city officials could be drawn, and their immediate families that formed the social class of the medieval
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If a burgher was assassinated, all the others had a right to bring the supposed murderer to trial by judicial combat,
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Those who lived outside the city could still become burghers but they would be '
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Entry into burgher status varied from country to country and city to city. In
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In the Netherlands, burghers were often exempted from
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Lucas Franchoys the Younger
medieval
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bourgeoisie
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corvée
Burgess (title)
Grand Burgher
Bildungsbürgertum
Poorter
Swiss bourgeoisie
Daig (Switzerland)
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Bourgeois of Brussels
Bourgeois of Paris
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