 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 pages
...con' tinue, we shall at length be constrained to pay ' for a pig a pound.' In another place 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... | |
 | 1832 - 352 pages
...is not able to buy him books, nor give his neighbour drink ; all the great gain goeth another way. 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... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - 1832 - 354 pages
...is not able to buy him books, nor give his neighbour drink ; ail the great gain goeth another way. 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... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 664 pages
...taking place. Latimer has drawn, in his own father, an interesting picture of THE ANTIENT YEOMAN. ' MY Father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own : he had only a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon, he tilled so much... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 636 pages
...taking place. Latimer has drawn, in his own father, an interesting picture of THE ANTIENT YEOMAN. ' MY Father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own: he had only a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon, he tilled so much... | |
 | 1840 - 488 pages
...sermons before Edward vi., describes the English yeoman of the commencement 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 so much as kept halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pages
...close of the fifteenth century, as the following extract will show : — " My father (says Latimer) 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 hcjeupon he tilled so much land as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...sermons will give an idea of his style and peculiar ' manner: — [A Yeoman of Henry >'//'< i/rnc.] r the si £3 or £-1 by year at the i uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a« kept I half a dozen men.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...one of the great Martyrs of the Reformation, was born about 1472. In one of his sermons, 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 He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before... | |
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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. 
