 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...affected his vitals, and he died in lingering anguish.* A YEOMAN OF HENRY SEVENTH'S TIME. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 3/. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1856 - 488 pages
...Latimer's had no lands of his own; only he had a farm o/,aie°»caie°of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen mationmen. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 pages
...acquainted with country affairs, tells us of the old time, in a well-known passage ; — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he...so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine." t The kine and the sheep fed on the common pastureland.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...affected his vitals, and he died in lingering anguish.! A YEOMAN OF HENRY SEVENTH'S TIME. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 3/. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | 1857 - 330 pages
...mode of living among the yeomanry at the beginning of the sixteenth century: — My father (says he) was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept himself and a dozen men.... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1857 - 334 pages
...mode of living among the yeomanry at the beginning of the sixteenth century : — My father (says he) was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or .£4 a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept himself and a dozen men.... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 pages
...Leicestershire, was born at that place. He has left the following curious notices of his father: "My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he...so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep : and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness with... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 610 pages
...He has left the following curious notices of his father: " My father was a yeoman and had no lauds of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled во much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep : and my mother milked thirty kine.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...never was ashamed — nay, made it his boast, saying in one of his sermons at court : — " 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 walk for... | |
 | John Hampden Gurney - 1858 - 482 pages
...directed to landholders, against large farms and growing rents. " My father was a yeoman", he said, " 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. 
