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have goods worth 200/. or be the fon ot a knight or baron, 

 or perfon of a liigher degree, or fon and heir apparent of 

 an efquire. But, by a later aft, Car. II. no man may keep 

 greyhounds within the pourallec, or elfewhere, within 

 England or Wales, unlefs he have a free warren, or be 

 lord of a manor, or fuch a freeholder as is feifed, in his 

 own right, or in right of his wife, of lands, tenements, or 

 hereditaments of the clear yearly value of 40/. over and 

 above all charges and reprifcs of fuch eftate of inheritance ; 

 or of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, in his own right, 

 or in right of his wife, for term of life or lives, of the yearly 

 value of 80/. over and above all charges and reprifes, or that 

 is worth in goods or cliattels 400/. 



The pourallee, or purlieu, tlien, is faid to be for him that 

 is fo qualitied : others, not qualified, and therefore not pur- 

 lieu-men, yet having land in the pourallee, may, if they 

 find any wild beails of the foretts in their own grounds 

 within the pourallee, chafe them thereout with little dogs ; 

 but not with greyhounds, or other dogs. 



Nor is the purlieu-man left at large to hunt at his own 

 difcretion ; but he is tied down to feveral rules : as. 



That he always begnis his chafe in his own ground ; 



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and, that, though he finds fuch wild beafts in his own 

 pourallee, and in refpeft thereof, hath a property in them, 

 ratlone foli, againil all perfons, but the king ; yet fuch his 

 property is only on this condition, that he can ilay them 

 with his dogs in chafe, without foreftalling them, before 

 they can recover the forelt. If they be within the lifl of 

 the forell:, before the dogs fatten on them, they are the 

 king's, or other owner of the foreft. 



2. But if the pourallee-man firll make his chafe in his 

 own freehold, he may purfue the fame through every man's 

 ground within the pourallee, and his dogs fallen on a wild 

 bead, before he can get within the bounds of the foreil, and 

 the beaft draw the dogs into the forell, and is there (lain by 

 them ; here the pourallee-man (hall not enter into the fored, 

 nor take the bead fo killed, becaufe his courfe was irregular 

 from the beginning, as he could claim no property in the 

 beaft, ratione foli. 



3. A pourallee-man may hunt in his own poXirallee with 

 no more company than his own fervants ; neither may he 

 apponit, licenfe, or warrant any other perfon, except his 

 fervants, to hunt by his commandment in his pourallee. 



4. Every pourallee-man is forbidden, by the laws of the 

 foreft, to hunt in his own grounds within the pourallee every- 

 day, or oftener than three days in any one week, Sunday 

 excepted. 



5. Nor is any man to difturb, or make a courfe after any 

 deer found in his pourallee, withm forty days after the king 

 hath made a general hunting m the foreft adjoining there- 

 unto ; becaufe then the wild beafts of the foreft come not 

 into the pourallees of their own accord, but as they are 

 forced into the fame by the hunters, with clamours, and 

 blowing of horns, fo that they fly thither for ref\ige. 



6. No man (hall hunt within feven miles of the borders of 

 the foreft, or in his own pourallee, v/ithm forty days next 

 before the king hath ilfued oat his proclamation, declaring 

 his royal will and pleafure to nuke a general hunting in that 

 foreft. 



Inafmuch as the pourallees were once, and in fome fenfe 

 ftill are foreft, it was neceffary to have officers to attend, 

 and take on them the charge of the prefervation of the 

 game that may happen to wander out of the foreft into the 

 pourallees ; fince otherwife the laws of the pourallees could 

 not be executed, but the foreft itfelf would foon be deftroyed 

 by the pourallee-men. 



For this reafon, rangers were firft appointed, who, 



though not ofiicers in the foreft, yet appertain thereto ; for 

 all officers in the foreft have charge of the vert and venifon 

 of the foreft ; but a ranger hath no charge of the vert, but 

 only of venifon coming out of the foreft, into the pourallees, 

 his place of charge ; from whence his office is to conduft 

 the fame back again into the foreft. 



This officer is appointed by the king, or his chief jufticc 

 in eyre, anvi is made by patent, with a fee commonly of 

 twenty, thirty, or forty pounds, or more, by the year, 

 payable out of the exchequer, as alfo certain fee-deer, both 

 red and fallow, to be taken annually, at proper feafons, out 

 of the foreft. 



Tlie fubftance of his oath is, to rechafe, and with^is 

 hounds drive back, the wild beails of the foreft, as often as 

 they range out of the fame into his pourallec ; to prevent all 

 unlawful hunting and hunters of wild beafts of venery and 

 chafe, as well within the pourallees, as within the foreft ; 

 and to prefent thofe and other offences, at the next court of 

 attachments or fwainmote, which ftiall (irft happen. 



Rangers, it is to be obferved, belong only to fuch pou- 

 rallees as were once the woods and lands of the fubjeft , and 

 were afterwards difaiforefted again, and fo became pou- 

 rallees. Hence, as there are fome forefts in England, which 

 never had any enlargement by new aflforeftations, and there- 

 fore have no pourallees at this day, there can be no rangers 

 belonging to them. Manwood's Foreft Laws, part 2. c. 20. 

 4 Inft- Z°h 4- I Jones's Rep. 278. • Moor. 706. 987. 



PURMALL, m Geography, a town of Hindooftan ; ic 

 miles W.S.W. of Allahabad. 



PURMERENT, a town of North HoUand, on a.brook 

 of the fame name, governed by a council, bailiff, and burgo- 

 mafters. The town had a voice in the affembly of the ftates ; 

 10 miles N. of Amfterdam. N. lat. 52° 33'. E. long. 4° 

 46'. — Alfo, a fmall idand near the coalt of Java, on which 



lies an hofpital for the difeafed poor of Batavia Alfo, a 



fmall idand in a large bay on the N. coaft of New Guinea. 

 S. lat. 2° 16'. E. long. 135° 12'. 



PURNA. See Pannah. 



PURNEAH, a circar of Bengal, bounded on the N. 

 by Morung, on the E. by Dinagepour, on the S. by Ra- 

 Jemal, and on the W. by Bahar ; about 80 miles long from 

 N.E. to S.W., and 70 from N.W. to S.E. The capital 

 of the fame name is fituated on a river which runs into the 

 Ganges ; 200 miles N. of Calcutta. N. lat. 25° 48'. E. 

 long. 87° 40'. 



PURNITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Iglau ; 

 7 miles S.E. of Iglau. 



PURPARTY (Fr. pour part, i. e. pro parte) is that 

 part or (hare of an eftate, firft held in common by parceners, 

 which is by partition allotted to any of them. To make 

 purparty is to divide and fever the lands that fall to par» 

 ceners, which till partition they held jointly, and/iro indivifo. 

 Old Nat. Br. II. 



PURPLE, Purpura, Tojipufa, a red colour, bordering 

 on violet ; now dyed cliierly with cochineal. 



Purple was much efteemed among the ancients ; efpecially 

 the Tyrian purple, which underwent more dyes than the 

 reft, and which was almoll peculiar to the emperors and 

 kings. Yet this purple did not exceed that now in ufe. 

 The chief reafons why the ancient purple dye has been dif- 

 ufed are, that the latter is both cheaper and finer. 



The ancient purple was tinged or given with the blood 

 or juice of a precious turbinated teftaceous fea-fi(h, called 

 by the Greeks tto^Im^-x, and by the 'L?Xms purpura ; of 

 which we have defcriptions in feveral authors, ani (liells in 

 moft of the cabinets of the curious. See FvRPLE-Fi/ii. 



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