 | 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 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 506 pages
...very tolerable information. Latimer's ' My father,' says Latimer, J ' was a yeoman, and the acaie of had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of ^Lree ^ four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 320 pages
...describes his father's mode of living about the beginning of the sixteenth century, says : — " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 4Z. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 328 pages
...describes his father's mode of living about the beginning of the sixteenth century, says : — " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 4:1. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 568 pages
...this piece of autobiography in his first sermon preached before Edward VI., 1549 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or foure pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
