| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1858 - 678 str.
...be, he never was ashamed — nay, made 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 walk for... | |
| Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper - 1858 - 610 str.
...He has left the following curious notices of his father: " My father was a yeoman and had no lauds of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled во much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep : and my mother milked thirty kine.... | |
| John Hampden Gurney - 1858 - 482 str.
...directed to landholders, against large farms and growing rents. " My father was a yeoman", he said, " 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... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1858 - 506 str.
...very tolerable information. Latimer's ' My father,' says Latimer, J ' was a yeoman, and the acaie of had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of ^Lree ^ four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 str.
...think verily that if it thus continue, 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 walk for... | |
| Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 str.
...father [' a 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; and so I think other men did... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 568 str.
...* He gives this piece of autobiography in his first sermon preached before Edward VI., 1549 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or foure pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 320 str.
...sermons, in which he describes his father's mode of living about the beginning of the sixteenth century, says : — " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of 31. or 4Z. by the year, at the uttermost; and, hereupon, he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men.... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 str.
...think verily that if it thus continue, 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 walk for... | |
| John Tulloch - 1860 - 436 str.
...King Edward VI., that has drawn for us the paternal character and homestead. " My father," he says, " 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... | |
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