 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 walk for a hundred sheep and my mother milked thirty kine...  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 371826Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...thought or tender feeling. He was burnt with Ridley, at Oxford, in 1555, 1, A Yeoman's Estate. 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 nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep;... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...interfere, with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable inrormation. 'My father," says Latimer, 'was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a/arm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a* kept... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1870 - 644 pages
...with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable information. 'My father,' says Latimer,2 ' 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... | |
 | 1870 - 340 pages
...wonder at Hugh Latimer's often-quoted but graphic description of his father's house : — " 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...of a yeoman, by Latimer, in the first sermon preached before Edward vi., 8th March 1549: '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... | |
 | 1871 - 784 pages
...of La timer, afterwards one of Henry's court preachers. He says: "My father was a yeoman, and had DO lands of his own; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermo-t, and hereupon he tilled so much at kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 248 pages
...not without very tolerable information. " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no land of his own, only he had a. farm of three or four pound* by tJie year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk for... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...not without very tolerable information. " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no land 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... | |
 | 1873 - 588 pages
...curious light on some of the vexed questions of the present day. ' My father was a yeoman,' he says, ' and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Major - 1873 - 168 pages
...learn — old verb for teach kine— cows hospitality — open house wholesome — healthy 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... | |
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