 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.  The Eclectic Review - الصفحة 79المحررون: - 1858عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Hampden Gurney - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...directed to landholders, against large farms and growing rents. " My father was a yeoman", he said, " and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds 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 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...He has left the following curious notices of his father: " My father was a yeoman and had no lauds of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled во much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...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,...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 kiue. He was able,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...* 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 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...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; and so... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...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,...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. He was able,... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...not in all cases given to the page. the paternal character and homestead. " My father/' he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...King Edward VI., that has drawn for us the paternal character and homestead. " My father," he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
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