 | William Hickman S. Aubrey - 1878 - 734 ページ
...quotation will show that statements such as that just taken from Harrison mnst be accepted cum grano salts. "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 thereupon he tilled BO much )!.'•. kept half-a-dozen men. He... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - 1882 - 430 ページ
...reduced in numbers and weight, and oppressed by rack-rents. " My father," says Bishop Hugh Latimer, " was a yeoman and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm pf three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1883 - 282 ページ
...father's day with their wretched state at the time he was speaking. Here are his very words '7 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year »t the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 1044 ページ
...capons, chickens, eggs, &c. ; these things with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, " 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... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 542 ページ
...capons, chickens, eggs, &c. ; these things with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, "My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound bv year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 ページ
...things with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, "My father was a yeoman, nr>'l ha>l no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound hv year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 ページ
...gives a faithful picture of the manners, thoughts, and events of the period." "My father," he writes, "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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1891 - 480 ページ
...France1. 1. Portrait d'un yecman par Latimer, prédicateur de Henri VIII. My father was a yeoraan, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by year at thé uttermost, and hereupon he lilled so much as he kept half a dozen men. He... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 ページ
...gives a faithful picture of the manners, thoughts, and events of the period." "My father," he writes, "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... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 ページ
...gives a faithful picture of the manners, thoughts, and events of the period." "My father," he writes, "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... | |
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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. 
