| Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 568 ページ
...* He gives this piece of autobiography in his first sermon preached before Edward VI., 1549 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or foure pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 320 ページ
...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 31. or 4Z. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
| Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 ページ
...father [' a yeoman,' as the bishop tells us in his first sermon preached before the same King, ' who had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost'] was as diligent to teach me to shoot, as to learn me any other thing;... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 ページ
...the fire affected his vitals, and he died in lin{i-ring anguish.' A YEOMAN OF HENRY SEVENTH S TIME. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only IIP had a farm of 3/. or 41. by yoar at the uttermost, and hereupon lie tilled so much as kept half... | |
| 1860 - 568 ページ
...before King Edward VI., on March 8, 1519, he gave the following curious account of his parentage : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; onely he had a farme of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so... | |
| George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 ページ
...furnished his biographers with their entire stock of information respecting his birth and parentage. " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm (on which he paid a rent) of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 ページ
...the fire affected his vitals, and he died in tin|ering 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 31. or 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 ページ
...the fire affected his vitals, and he died in lingering anguish.2 A YEOMAN OF HENRT SEVENTH 8 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... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1866 - 492 ページ
...ont gagné des batailles en France1. 1. Portrait d'un yeoman par Latimer, prédicateur de Henri VIII. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, onry ne had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as he kept... | |
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