Sentence examples for free borough from inspiring English sources

In 1204 a royal charter established Lynn as a free borough.

Edward I granted a charter in 1284, making the community a free borough with a merchant guild.

The feudal earls of Gloucester made Tewkesbury a free borough in the 12th century, and the royal charter of liberties granted in 1698 remains in force.

Salford became a free borough in about 1230, when it was granted a charter as a free borough by the Earl Ranulph of Chester.

Wells was recognised as a free borough by a Royal charter of King John in 1201.

It was granted a charter by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, in about 1230, making Salford a free borough.

It's a field in which Scott Stringer, the apparently pizzazz-free Manhattan borough president, would seem to be an outside contender.

The southernmost of the island's five free-standing boroughs (the rest is the discontinuous Long Beach Township), it also has the strongest links to history.

John J. Marchi, who represented Staten Island in the State Senate for half a century, died the other day, committed as ever to the goal of prying his borough free from New York City.

Walking amid the shops and bustle of central Barking this week, Zain Achtar, a 19-year-old student, could hardly stop smiling as he basked in a borough free of the BNP.

"It often comes down to a choice for councils - do you keep an old people's home open, spend money on meals on wheels or collect green waste for free?" When Rushcliffe Borough Council, in Nottinghamshire, introduced green waste charges of £25 a year, it said it was a way to raise additional income.