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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1741, for example, political control of the Dunfermline district of burghs turned on the vote of the town of Inverkeithing.
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Lydford, in Devon, still has the abandoned streets of a late Saxon burgh which never succeeded.
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Some of the burgh politicians were themselves military officers.
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Some towns had more than one burgh .
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The Council House and prison of the ancient burgh of Canongate, built in 1591.
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The second type of late Saxon town, which overlaps in some cases with the first, is the fortified burghs.
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These were known as burghs of barony and regality.