Question

What is the author’s purpose in this excerpt?

Answer 1

Answer:

to explain why landowners punished poachers

Explanation:

The excerpt talked about what punishments would be given if you killed an animal

That's why to explain why Elizabethans tried poaching & to explain why poaching was often forgiven doesn't make sense.

To explain why landowners punished poachers is better than to explain why poaching was dangerous is because the excerpt talks about the legal punishments of killing an animal, instead of the danger possibility of being attacked.