 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - Страниц: 608
...before king Edward, being confident the reader will not repent his pains in perusing it. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands 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. He had walk... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 528
...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 walk... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 450
...of the manners and customs of that age, which may be interesting to many of our readers. " 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... | |
 | William Gresley - 1843 - Страниц: 284
...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... | |
 | John Oliver Willyams Haweis - 1844 - Страниц: 348
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Страниц: 692
...will give an idea of his style and peculiar ' manner: — [A Yeoman of Henry >'//'< i/rnc.] My father ntributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and t £3 or £-1 by year at the i uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a« kept I half a dozen men.... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 384
...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, only he had 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... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 762
...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, only he had 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... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 538
...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, only he had 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... | |
 | 1846 - Страниц: 404
...Latimer, before Edward VI., March 8th, 1549, he gives this account of his family : — " My father was a yeoman, and 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 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. 
