 | 1842 - 528 pagina’s
...close of the fifteenth century, as the following extract will show : — " My father (says Latimer) was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hcjeupon he tilled so much land as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 pagina’s
...exceed 100 acres. " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; he had only a farm of three or four pounds by the year, at the utmost ; and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for 100 sheep ; and... | |
 | William Gresley - 1843 - 284 pagina’s
...would have wished to conceal their lowly birth. "My father," said he, in one of his sermons at court, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own : only he had a farm of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pagina’s
...farmer in his time, tells us that his father, who was a yeoman, had no land of his own, but only " consistency, the approach of every insect or rept utmost ; and hereupon be tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for an hundred sheep... | |
 | 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...exceed 100 acres. ' My father,' says Latimer, ' was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; he had only a farm of three or four pounds by the year, at the utmost ; and hereupon lie tilled as much as kept a half a dozen men. He " Coke's Littleton, I. 58.... | |
 | John Oliver Willyams Haweis - 1844 - 348 pagina’s
...whereas have been a great many householders and inhabitants there is now but a shepherd and his dog. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...sermons will give an idea of his style and peculiar ' manner: — [A Yeoman of Henry >'//'< i/rnc.] r the si £3 or £-1 by year at the i uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a« kept I half a dozen men.... | |
 | 1845 - 762 pagina’s
...Leicestershire, about the year 1484.* In one of his sermons before King Edward", he says himself, — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own,...a farm of three or four pounds by the year, at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pagina’s
...Leicestershire, about the year 1484.* In one of his sermons before King Edward, he says himself,—" My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own,...a farm of three or four pounds by the year, at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
 | 1845 - 538 pagina’s
...Leicestershire, about the year 1484.* In one of his sermons before King Edward, he says himself, — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own,...a farm of three or four pounds by the year, at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
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My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine. 
