 | 1874 - 400 pages
...declaring it. For instance, in one of his sermons ho thus speaks of his parentage : " My father had no land of his own ; only he had a farm of £3 or £4 a-year...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." In his very early... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1874 - 512 pages
...them he gives the following picture of the comfort, happiness, and industry of his father's family. " My father," says he, " 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 Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...rent, indeed, that the small yeomanry class had been enabled to exist. " My father," says Latimer, " 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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 268 pages
...learn — old verb for teach king— cows hospitality — open house wholesome — healthy My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - 1875 - 438 pages
...reduced in numbers and weight, and oppressed by rack-rents. " My father," says Bishop Hugh Latimer, " 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... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1875 - 912 pages
...rent, indeed, that the small yeomanry class had been enabled to exist. " My father," says Latimer, " 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1876 - 716 pages
...of you." — LATIMEK'S last Sermon lej'ore King Edward the S'n!l>. [Latimer't Father.] " MY Father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm ci three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1876 - 532 pages
...Second Sermon before the King * Third Sermon before the King. -1558] EFFECTS 'OF PROTESTANTISM 473 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.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...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 hercupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | Globe encyclopaedia - 1878 - 666 pages
...Eiu;lbh reformer, was born .-.t Ihurca^tone m Leicestershire, about 1490. 'My father' 1-е says, ' was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of /3 or /4 by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half-a-dozen men.' L. studied... | |
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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. 
