 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pagina’s
...father [' a yeoman,' as the bishop tells us in his first sermon preached before the same King, ' who had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost'] was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing;... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 314 pagina’s
...not in all cases given to the page. the paternal character and homestead. " My father/' he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he...a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 pagina’s
...King Edward VI., that has drawn for us the paternal character and homestead. " My father," he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he...a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pagina’s
...think verily that if it thus continue, we shall at length be constrained to pay for a pig a pound. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pagina’s
...the fire affected his vitals, and he died in lin{i-ring anguish.' A YEOMAN OF HENRY SEVENTH S TIME. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only IIP had a farm of 3/. or 41. by yoar at the uttermost, and hereupon lie tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | 1860 - 568 pagina’s
...before King Edward VI., on March 8, 1519, he gave the following curious account of his parentage : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; onely he had a farme of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 pagina’s
...furnished his biographers with their entire stock of information respecting his birth and parentage. " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm (on which he paid a rent) of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1862 - 516 pagina’s
...Latimer's account of the scale of rents before the Reformation. 26 Principle of State Interference. CH. i. had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep,... | |
 | 1891 - 938 pagina’s
...demoralised, Latimer, preaching before the king, relates : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lauds of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. lie had walk for... | |
 | 1892 - 680 pagina’s
...preached by Bishop Latimer before Edward the Sixth, on the 8th of March, 1549. In this he says : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of ^3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
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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. 
