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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. "
The Library of the Old English Prose Writers ...: Latimer's Sermons - Page 131
1832
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The sermons of ... Hugh Latimer ... many of which were ... on the ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 9

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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

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...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 3

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...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 36

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...
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The Parlour Portfolio, Or, Post-chaise Companion: Being a ..., Volume 1

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...
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A History of the British Empire: From the Accession of Charles I ..., Volume 1

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,...
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The London Christian instructor, or, Congregational magazine, Volume 6

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...
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The Life of Bernard Gilpin

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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