Obs. Another form of BOROUGH, BURGH. Used also in plural for the Burgesses, or representatives of the Burghs or ‘Commonalty’ in the Scottish parliament. Cf. BURGESS.
1634–46. Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), 135. Many commissioners being assembled, they were parted in three, barrons, burrowes, ministers.
1642. Declar. Lords & Comm. to Gen. Ass. Ch. Scot., Lond., 10. The Nobility, Gentry, Burrowes, Ministers and Commons.
1650. Row (son), Hist. Kirk (1842), 486. The gentrie by themselves, the burrows by themselves.
