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==History==
Burgage was the basis of the right to vote in many boroughs sending [[Member of Parliament|members]] to the [[unreformed House of Commons|House of Commons]] before 1832. In these boroughs the right to vote was attached to the occupation of particular burgage tenements. These burgages could be freely bought and sold, and the owner of the tenement was entitled to [[conveyancing|convey]] the right to vote for the duration of the election to another person, their 'nominee', who could then vote. The vote of each person entitled to the franchise was a matter of public record. Therefore the owner could monitor their nominees' votes. By purchasing the majority of the burgages one rich person could acquire the right to elect
In medieval England and Scotland and some parts of the [[Welsh Marches]] '''burgage plots''' or '''burgage tenements''' were [[inclosure|inclosed fields]] extending the confines of a town, established by the lord of the manor, as divisions of the 'open' manorial fields. The [[Burgess (word)|burgesses]] (equivalents of "burghers") to whom these tracts were allotted, as tenants of the enclosed lands, paid a cash rent instead of, as previously, feudal service. In 1207, for instance, Maurice Paynell, the Lord of the Manor of Leeds, granted a charter to "his burgesses of Leeds" to build a 'new town', and so created the first borough of Leeds, Briggate, a street running north from the River Aire.<ref>[http://www.leodis.org/discovery/default.asp Discovering Leeds]</ref>
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