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PURLUE

Volume 3 · 54 words · 1771 Edition

or Purlieu, signifies all that ground near a any forest, which being made forest by king Henry II., Richard I., and king John, was afterwards by perambu- lations and grants of Henry III. severed again from the same, and made purlieu; that is to say, pure and free from the laws of the forest.