 | 1840 - 516 pages
...Edward vi., describes the English yeoman of the commencement of the sixteenth century. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he...uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept halfa-dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 604 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 pages
...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 - 528 pages
...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...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 for a hundred sheep, and my mother... | |
 | 1842 - 450 pages
...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 - 342 pages
...attained an eminence in which many would have wished to conceal their lowly birth. "My father," said he, in one of his sermons at court, " was a yeoman, and...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...yeoman, had no land of his own, but onJy " a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the utmost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for an hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He kept his son at school till he went... | |
 | John Oliver Willyams Haweis - 1844 - 348 pages
...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 - 692 pages
...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 - 538 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
