 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1839 - 572 pages
...sermon preached before Edward VI., March 8, 1549, gave the following account of his family : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...be glorified in us both.t * Query inlaid. t Preface to Life of Christ. SECTION II. BISHOP LATIMER. 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 utmost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 606 pages
...first sermon before king Edward, being confident the reader will not repent his pains in perusing it. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds a-year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 608 pages
...first sermon before king Edward, being confident the reader will not repent his pains in perusing it. " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds a-year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
 | 1842 - 450 pages
...specimen of the manners and customs of that age, which may be interesting to many of our readers. " My father was a yeoman, 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Gresley - 1843 - 284 pages
...would have wished to conceal their lowly birth. "My father," said he, 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 pounds by year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen... | |
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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. 
