| John Davenport - 1839 - 520 sivua
...wonders concerning the produce of as mall farm. " My father, " says he, " was a yeoman, and had no land of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the utmost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 sivua
...first sermon before king Edward, being confident the reader will not repent his pains in perusing it. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds a-year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for... | |
| Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 606 sivua
...first sermon before king Edward, being confident the reader will not repent his pains in perusing it. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds a-year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for... | |
| 1840 - 488 sivua
...sermons before Edward vi., describes the English yeoman of the commencement of the sixteenth century. " 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... | |
| William Blackwood - 1841 - 646 sivua
...exceed 100 acres: " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; he had only a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the utmost; and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for 100 sheep, and my... | |
| 1842 - 450 sivua
...specimen of the manners and customs of that age, which may be interesting to many of our readers. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an... | |
| 1842 - 528 sivua
...close of the fifteenth century, as the following extract will show : — " My father (says Latimer) 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 hcjeupon he tilled so much land as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
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