 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 520 pages
...scale of rent 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... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 pages
...impropriations ; great reformation is to be had in them. I know .... the great gain goeth another way. My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of iii. or iiii. pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 328 pages
...impropriations ; great reformation is to be had in them. I know .... the great gain goeth another way. My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of iii. or iiii. pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | Thomas Mackay - 1889 - 320 pages
...impropriations ; great reformation is to be had in them. I know .... the great gain goeth another way. My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of iii. or iiii. pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1889 - 954 pages
...that the small yeomanry class had been enabled to exist. " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoma'h, 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 Franck Bright - 1889 - 530 pages
...Latimer's Sermon afthe Plough. * Lntlmer's Setond Semon fiffore Oit Ktng. * Third Sermon. btjvrt Iht Kiity. yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a i'aim of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | 1890 - 838 pages
...varieties under similar conditions. — WC STKELE, Florida. 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 £31, or ^41, by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men He... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1890 - 176 pages
...which went heretofore for twenty or forty pounds a year now is let for fifty or a hundred. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only, he had a farm at a rent of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and thereupon he tilled so much as... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 856 pages
...lamented by great men. " My father," said Hugh Latimer, in the first half of the sixteenth century, "was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm at a rent of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and thereon he tilled so much as kept... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 462 pages
...outspoken sermon preached before the king, in which he said: "My father was a yeoman [small farmer], and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds 1 This was owing to the greed for land on the part of the mercantile classes,... | |
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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. 
