 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 Life of Bernard Gilpin - Page 78de William Gilpin - 1824 - 270 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1850 - 678 pages
...metropolis. " My father," says Latimer, in one of his sermons at court, " 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... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable information. "Hy father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no land of his own ; only he had a /arm of three or four pouncU by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1852 - 708 pages
...farmer of the early part of the sixteenth century : — " 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 BO much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pages
...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;... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 1046 pages
...Lalimer has given us glimpses of his father's bouse, and "of his own boyLood, in his sermous. " My father was a yeoman, and had no land 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 liad a... | |
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