Stringent rules were made as to free quarters and purveyance.
These compositions arose out of the prerogative of purveyance.
But there was no necessity that the matter of purveyance should be left to the students.
The royal household was a complex 'body corporate' founded in the old days of 'purveyance.'
purveyance, as I have already said, may serve to distinguish the defects from the abuses of our constitution.
Great Britain is, I believe, the only monarchy in Europe where the oppression of purveyance has been entirely abolished.
This abuse existed in England under the name of purveyance and Pre-emption, but there it was restricted to the royal household.
Feudal dues and purveyance were abolished, and an excise voted to Charles in their place.
The nature of this penalty, as I may call it, was founded on the Statute of purveyance, not then repealed.
We may observe that the article of purveyance is here very gently touched upon, and confined to a sign-manual.
c.1300, from Anglo-French purveance and directly from Old French porveance, from Latin providentia (see providence).
