 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
 | 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 me to school He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles... | |
 | Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 610 pages
...Thurcaston 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 HUGH LATIMEE, the only, or hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...the fire 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 4/. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...might be, he 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 NS VOL. IV. H had a farm of three or four pound by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...think 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 men. He had... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 328 pages
...which he 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 3Z. or 4:1. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 322 pages
...his family circumstances, Latimer has left us this interesting record : " My father," he writes, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he...hereupon he tilled 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 pages
...Of his family circumstances, Latimer has left us this interesting record: " My father," he writes, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he...hereupon he tilled 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 pages
...Of his family circumstances, Latimer has left us this interesting record: " My father," he writes, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he...hereupon he tilled 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... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - 314 pages
...not in all cases given to the page. the paternal character and homestead. " My father/' he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he...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. He was able and... | |
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