| Hugh Latimer (bp. of Worcester.) - 1758 - 568 pages
...year ; fo that of this penfion he is not able to buy him books, nor give his neighbours drink ; and all the great gain goeth another way. My father was...lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the utmoft, and hereupon he tilled fo much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1807 - 910 pages
...gives the following account of himself, his family, and the value of farms, &c. at that period : " My father 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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...remarkable, as it relates to his personal history, and exhibits a correct picture of the ancient yeomanry : 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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...remarkable, as it relates to his personal history, and exhibits a correct picture of the ancient yeomanry : My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 4l. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
| 1809 - 776 pages
...he gives the lowing account of his family, which may be interesting as « a tale of other times." " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of t(iree or fonr pounds by the year at the utmost, and upon which he tilled so nun h as kept half a dozen... | |
| 1858 - 778 pages
...father being a tenant farmer, to whom Latimer thus refers in his first sermon before King Edward : — " 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 ho tilled so much as... | |
| 1820 - 438 pages
...fancy would amuse ydur readers. I am, Sir, &c. , / PHILALETES. \ V " My father was a yeoman, and had 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... | |
| George Brodie - 1822 - 570 pages
..." My father," says he, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, onely he had a farme of 3 or 4 pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept halfe a dozen men. He had walke for an hundred sheepe; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able,... | |
| 1823 - 736 pages
...their circumstances, he has himself described in his first sermon preached before Kdward the Sixth. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of two or three pounds by the year, at the utmost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
| William Gilpin - 1824 - 294 pages
...much things were altered in a very few years : " My father," says he, " was a yeoman, and had no land of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the court all things were venal; employments, honours, favours of every kind. In the room... | |
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