ignifies a contribution towards the building or repairing of castles, or walls, for the defense. fence of a borough, or city.

By the law of king Athelstan, the castles and walls of towns were to be repaired, and burgh-bote levied every year within a fortnight after rogation days. No person whatever was exempt from this service; the king himself could not exempt a man from burgh-bote; yet, in after times, exemptions appear to have been frequently granted; infomuch, that, according to Cowell, the word burgh-bote came to be chiefly used to denote not the service but the liberty or exemption from it.

BURGH-BRECHIE properly the breaking open a burgh, house, inclosure, &c., and in the laws of Canute, c. 55, signifies a fine imposed upon a community of a town for a breach of the peace. According to Rastallus, burgh-breche is, to be quit of trespasses committed against the peace in city or borough.