What is "burgages"

Usage examples of "burgages".

Cadfael walked through the flowering orchard, very uneasy in his mind after the nights alarms, and continued downstream until he stood somewhere opposite the gardens of the burgages along the approach to the castle.

Those tied to vills and burgages in Caladhria and Lescar may well have yielded to the invaders rather than see homes and livelihoods burned over their heads but the herders between the Dalas and the Drax could vanish into the distance whenever the cohorts advanced, returning under the cover of night to strike at their tormentors.