 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.  Journal - Page 217by Royal Institution of Cornwall - 1889Full view - About this book
 | William Hutton - 1785 - 54 pages
...Bifliop Latimer in one of his fermons. gives the following little hiftory of his own family. "My father had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds 'a yeai* at the uttermoft, and,hereupon he tilled fo much as kept half o a dozen men. He had walks... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1807 - 914 pages
...gives the following account of himself, his family, and the value of farms, &c. at that period : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own...uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...remarkable, as it relates to his personal history, and exhibits a correct picture of the ancient yeomanry: My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 944 pages
...yeomanry: My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his awn, only he had a farm of 31. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much .as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked 30 kine. He was able, and... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 508 pages
...yeomanry: My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of bis own, only he had a farm of 31. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked SO kine. He was able, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 pages
...continue, we shall at length be constrained to pay for a pig a pound.' In another place he says, ' My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, anil hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 766 pages
...again in 1744; the quatrain just quoted is from the 101 yeoman, had no land of his own, but only " 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;... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 570 pages
...father," says he, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of hi* own, onely he had a fame of 3 or 4 pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept halfe a dozen men. He had walke for «n hundred sheepe; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able,... | |
 | 1823 - 736 pages
...their circumstances, he has himself described in his first sermon preached before Edward the Sixth. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of two or three pounds by the year, at the utmost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - 1824 - 478 pages
...is not able to buy him books, nor give his neighbour drink ; all the great gain goeth another way. 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... | |
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