sentences:  In addition places (which in theory were urban areas) were created as parliamentary boroughs, from time to time starting in the thirteenth century.A place once enfranchised tended to continue to be required to send members to Parliament (known as burgesses or citizens for cities and barons for the Cinque Ports), even if it always had an insignificant population or decayed over the centuries.Although some boroughs included parts of more than one county it was customary to regard them as being associated with one county for the purpose of parliamentary representation.