manor vs purlieu

manor

noun
  • One's neighbourhood. 

  • A landed estate. 

  • The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district. 

  • Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context. 

  • The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion. 

  • A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe. 

purlieu

noun
  • The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood. 

  • The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc. 

How often have the words manor and purlieu occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )