Less than a year later, the burgesses of Northampton received a message from the king.

Thus the nobles, the gentry and the superior rank of burgess—the upper and the upper-middle classes—sent their daughters to nunneries.

Besides this charter Edward III. also granted the burgesses the privilege of electing a mayor and bailiffs every year.

Yet, in a portrait by Joseph E. Burgess, he’s a pugilist ready to spring.

Court records say Brittany Burgess was sentenced last week in Douglas County District Court.

Burgess paid his own airfare using non-taxpayer money in an office fund.