 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1914 - 190 sivua
...fyndynge no place to reste in." 1 Equally well known and much more precise is Bishop Latimer's lament : " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 sivua
...living, therefore My Father was a yeoman, and had no lands in my lifetime I thought good to bequeath unto T \ y x U= # } 2y T ts K 35 them in this little book, as in my Will and pounds by year at the uttermost, and hereupon Testament,... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 sivua
...LATIMER Land which went heretofore for twenty or forty pounds a year now is lent for fifty or a hundred. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, he had a farm at a rent of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost ; and thereupon he tilled... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - 1918 - 556 sivua
...the enclosures which resulted from the same cause, gives us a picture of the yeoman of his time. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own. He tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty... | |
 | Francis Neilson - 1919 - 208 sivua
...Latimer, one of the noblest characters in English history, tells us in one of his sermons that his " 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 utmost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for one... | |
 | 1928 - 552 sivua
...heretofore for twenty or forty pounds a year," said Hugh Latimer, " 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... | |
 | Fairfax Harrison - 1920 - 476 sivua
...preached before Edward VI (Sermons, Everyman's ed., 85) : "My father was a yeoman [in Leicestershire] and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at uttermost [say 160 acres arable, with communal rights of pasture] and hereupon he... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 280 sivua
...vivid pictures of the age. Here, for example, is a striking contrast between the old times and the new: 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... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 sivua
...goodly art, a wholesome kind of exercise and much commended in Physic. (2) The Decline of Yeomanry. 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... | |
 | Charles Harold Williams - 1925 - 312 sivua
...farmer. Latimer, First Sermon preached before Edward VI., 8 March, 1549. Works (Parker Soc.), ip 101.] 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... | |
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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. 
