 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 ページ
...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 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Christians - 1856 - 452 ページ
...king Edward vi., he drew the following fresh and homely picture of those early times in his history. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his Own. He had only a farm of two or three pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 ページ
...perfectly acquainted with country affairs, tells us of the old time, in a well-known passage ; — " 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 Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...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 41. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - 1857 - 334 ページ
...mode of living among the yeomanry at the beginning of the sixteenth century : — My father (says he) was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or .£4 a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept himself and a dozen men.... | |
 | 1857 - 330 ページ
...mode of living among the yeomanry at the beginning of the sixteenth century: — My father (says he) was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept himself and a dozen men.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 ページ
...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 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 Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 616 ページ
...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 hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 506 ページ
...very tolerable information. Latimer's ' My father,' says Latimer, J ' was a yeoman, and the acaie of had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of ^Lree ^ four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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... | |
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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. 
