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purlieu-man, † purley-man|ˈpɜːlɪmən|
Also 6 purle-, 7 purlie-man.
[f. prec. + man n.1]
The owner of freehold land within the purlieu of a forest; spec. see quot. 1607.
1574Sir J. Fortescue in S.P. Dom. Eliz. XCII, No. 34 (cf. Hist. Fortescue Fam. (1880) 315), I answered that I wold not myselfe..hunt my groundes, nor yet suffre anie purlemen to hunte them at anie tyme. Ibid. 316 Neyther my selfe, nor anie purleymen shall hunte anie of my groundes. 1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest, title-p., What a Purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne Purallee. 1607Cowell Interpr., Purlie man is he that hath lands within the purlieu, and being able to dispend forty shillings by the yeare of freehold, is upon these two points licensed to hunt in his owne purlieu. a1634Coke Inst. iv. lxxiii. Courts Forest (1648) 304 Seeing the wilde Beasts doe belong to the purlieu man ratione soli, so long as they remain in his grounds, he may kill them, for the property ratione soli is in him. 1793–4Christian in Blackstone's Comm. ii. xxvii. 419 note, If deer come out of the forest into the purlieu, the purlieu-man may hunt and kill them, provided he does it fairly and without forestalling. 1909R. W. Raper Let. to Editor 29 Mar., I am or claim to be a Purlieu man or Purley man: Having a little land and a Cottage in a Purlieu lying between the Bishop's Chase, Colwall, Herefordshire, and the Kings Chase, Worcestershire (Old Malvern Forest)... My Purlieu is so written, but always pronounced Purley. |