burghesses

Updated: July 19, 2025

"All those who belong to the friendship of the town" so runs a charter given in 1188 to the burghesses of Aire by Philip, Count of Flanders "have promised and confirmed by faith and oath that they will aid each other as brethren, in whatever is useful and honest.

kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin - Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution