or HEAD-BOROUGH, signifies the person who is the chief of the frank-pledge, and who had anciently the principal direction of those within his own pledge. He was also called burrow-head, burrshoulder, now borsholder, third-borrow, tything-man, chief-pledge, and borowelder, according to the diversity of speech in different places. This officer is now usually called a high-constable. The head-borrow was the chief of ten pledges; the other nine were called hand-borrows, or plegii manuales, and the like.

HEAD-PENCE, an exaction of a certain sum formerly collected by the sheriff of Northumberland from the inhabitants of that county, without any account to be made to the king. This was abolished by the statute 23 Henry VI. cap. 7.