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Webster 1913 Edition


Friborgh

{

Fri′borg

,

Fri′borgh

}
,
Noun.
[AS.
friðborh
, lit., peace pledge;
frið
peace +
borh
,
borg
, pledge, akin to E.
borrow
. The first part of the word was confused with
free
, the last part, with borough.]
(Old Eng. Law)
The pledge and tithing, afterwards called by the Normans
frankpledge
. See
Frankpledge
.
[Written also
friburgh
and
fribourg
.]
Burril.