 | Henry George - 1911 - 594 pages
...heretofore for twenty or forty pounds a year," said Hugh Latimer, "now is let for fifty or a hundred. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm at a rent of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and thereupon be tilled so much as... | |
 | 1892 - 680 pages
...preached by Bishop Latimer before Edward the Sixth, on the 8th of March, 1549. In this he says : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of ^3 or £4 by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
 | William James Ashley - 1893 - 552 pages
...Frederick Pollock, in a paper on Early Landhohling, in Mnemillan's Magazine for April, 1890. 2a. " 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 herenpon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1893 - 186 pages
...applied to a tenant farming a small estate. Thus old Bishop Latimer, speaking of his father, says " he was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men." " Many solutions,"... | |
 | William James Ashley - 1893 - 524 pages
...Frederick Pollock, in a paper on /.'•-,/,,' Landholding, in MacmiUan's Magazine for April, 1890. 2a. "My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only lie had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1894 - 332 pages
...elections, with the most worthy knights and squires resident." Latimer's sermon before Edward VI. " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four hundred pounds (rent) by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...autobiographical revelations are not the least interesting part of his sermons. "My father," he writes, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 a-year at the uttermost, and herenpon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had... | |
 | William Macdonald Sinclair - 1896 - 408 pages
...six years before the birth of Henry VIII. "My father," he says in a sermon before King Edward VI., "was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm ot three or four pound a year by the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | Ralph Olmsted Williams - 1897 - 262 pages
...the substitution of but in any of these passages would cause some loss or distortion of the sense. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost, . . .—Hugh Latimer, First Sermon before Edward VI., " Typical Selections... | |
 | John William Edward Conybeare - 1897 - 344 pages
...the land ; for so much of the soil of England had been Terra Ecclesitz. " My father," he tells us, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a form of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half... | |
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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. 
