Middle English Dictionary Entry
pūralẹ̄ n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pūralẹ̄ n. Also porale. |
| Etymology | AF & AL |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Law A royal or an official perambulation of a royal forest, a city, country, etc., to determine its bounds.
Associated quotations
- [ (c1290) Britton 1 (Lamb 403)319 : Et en mesme la manere soit fet de semblable distaunce ewe entre parties de par entre deus maners ou deus countez, issi qe par puralez soit le ple et le contek detrie et termine. ]
- [ (1304) RParl.1.177b : Aucune gentz..sont mys hors de Forest par la puralee. ]
- [ (1310) Chron.Edw.II in RS 76.1175 : Richerus de Reffham eligitur in majorem..Fecit etiam cum suis aldermannis la purale in civitate. ]
- (1306) Chron.Edw.I in RS 76.1146 : Super absolutione juramenti domini regis Angliae de foresta, quae vulgariter et Anglice dicebatur 'porale'.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.307 : 'Withoute any delay do mak þe purale Be a certeyn day'..To mak þe purale, it suld not be delaied, With suilk men suld it be, þat þei suld hald þam paied.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.309 : First þe nemnid alle þe, þe purale suld make, þat þorgh þe reame suld go, þe boundes forto stake.
- ?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.311 : If þe kyng wild haf don þe purale als he hette, þorghout Inglond, enselid & with scrite..þe lond had bien alle his.