 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
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...de la grande noblesse normande, par 1. Portrait d'un yoman par Latriner, prédicateur de Henri VIII. 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 592 pages
...de la grande noblesse normande, par 1. Portrait d'un yoman par Latriner, prédicateur de Henri VIII. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or tk by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 680 pages
...under the title of copyhold. In the next reign Latimer in an often-emoted passage says 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 halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 672 pages
...under the title of copyhold. In the next reign Latimer in an often-quoted passage says 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 halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 762 pages
...under the title of copyhold. In the next reign Latimer in an often-quoted passage says 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 halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1899 - 582 pages
...turbulent times. Such a man is described in Latimer's sermon before Edward VI. "My father Traill, II, was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four hundred pounds (rent) by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen,... | |
 | R. Monti Carlyle, Alexander James Carlyle - 1899 - 198 pages
...He goes on to show how the position of the yeoman has sunk in his lifetime. " My father," he says," was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound byyear at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 472 pages
...a portrait of a yeoman, by Latimer. in the first sermon preached before Edward VI, March 8, 154q: " 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 ut13 " Description of England." 275. termost, and hereupon he tilled so much... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1899 - 582 pages
...turbulent times. Such a man is described in Latimer's sermon before Edward VI. " My father Trail!, II. was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a 39Ip 39a " farm of three or four hundred pounds (rent) by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1899 - 574 pages
...turbulent times. Such a man is described in Latimer's sermon before Edward VI. "My father Train, II. was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a 39 *' 392farm of three or four hundred pounds (rent) by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled... | |
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