A court or assembly of burghers (town citizens) in medieval England and Scotland, with authority over local disputes and town business.
From 'burgh' and 'moot' or 'mote' (Old English for assembly or meeting), combining to mean 'burgh assembly' or 'town court'.
Burghemots were the original town halls—ordinary burghers gathered to settle disputes, manage markets, and make decisions about their town, a radical idea when kings usually made all the rules.
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