a market-town of the Lindsey division of the hundred of Candleshoe, in the county of Lincoln, distant a hundred and thirty-six miles from London. The country around it is a rich tract of marshy land, in which the best oxen are fattened. The market is held on Thursday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 716; in 1811 to 709, and in 1821, to 903.

BURGHbote signifies contribution towards the building or repairing of castles or walls, for the defence of a borough or city. By a law of King Athelstan, the castles and walls of towns were to be repaired, and burghbote levied every year within a fortnight after rogation days. No person whatever was exempt from this service, and even the king himself could not exempt a man from burghbote; yet in after-times exemptions appear to have been frequently granted, insomuch that the word burghbote came to denote, not the service, but the liberty or exemption from it.

BURGHbreche, or Burghbrech, a fine imposed on the community of a town or burgh, for a breach of the peace among them.