PURLIEU  , a word used of the outlying parts of a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place or See also:

• DISTRICT

district, sometimes in a derogatory sense . It was a See also:

• TERM

term of the old See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• FOREST

forest See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law (q.v.), and meant, as defined by Manwood (See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise of the Forest See also:

• LAWS

Laws), " a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest, . . .which . . .was once forest-See also:

• LAND

land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from the old." The owner of See also:

• FREE

free-lands in the purlieu to the yearly value of See also:

• FORTY

forty shillings was known as a " purlieu-See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man " or " purley-man." There seems no doubt that "purlieu" or "purley " represents the Anglo-See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French purale, puralee (O . Fr. pouraler, puraler, to go through, See also:

• LAT

Lat. perambulare), a legal term meaning properly a perambulation to determine the boundaries of a See also:

• MANOR

manor, See also:

• PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, &c .