burgess vs townsman

burgess

noun
  • An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen. 

  • A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies. 

  • A representative of a borough in the Parliament. 

  • A town magistrate. 

townsman

noun
  • A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town. 

  • A resident of a university town, as opposed to a scholar at the university; a townie. 

How often have the words burgess and townsman occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )