Seigneurial borough

A seigneurial borough was an administrative division of urban government within a manor of medieval England, that granted a town's citizens or burgesses rights of burgage tenure and a degree of self-government under a charter or prescription granted by the Lord of the Manor.^[1] Unlike fully incorporated boroughs, which received their privileges directly from The Crown through a Royal Charter and thus had "no lord but the King", seigniorial boroughs remained dependent on local manorial authority.^[2]

References

↑ Ballard, Adolphus; Tait, James (2010). "Seigneurial boroughs". British Borough Charters 1216-1307. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. lxxv–xc. ISBN 1108010342. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
↑ Tait, James (1968). The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 354. ISBN 0719003393. Retrieved 2012-10-13.

Borough status in the United Kingdom

Contemporary	London borough Metropolitan borough (England)

Municipal borough	Municipal Corporations Act 1835 (1835–1882 incorporations) Municipal Corporations Act 1882 (1882–1974 incorporations) County borough Metropolitan borough (London) Local Government Act 1933 Rural borough

Ancient borough	Unreformed boroughs 1835–1886 Seigneurial borough

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