[f. BOROUGH + HOLDER.] In certain Yorkshire boroughs: A person who holds property by burgage tenure: see BOROUGH 4. Modern dictionaries explain the word as = BORSHOLDER; possibly this is the meaning in quot. 1738.
1712. Lond. Gaz., No. 5036/3. The humble Address of the Mayor … Aldermen and Assistants of the … Borough of Rippon … and of several Gentlemen and Borough-holders.
1738. Hist. Crt. Excheq., ii. 27. The King’s Borrough-Holders in every County.
