 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...the fire affected his vitals, and he died in lin{i-ring anguish.' A YEOMAN OF HENRY SEVENTH S TIME. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only IIP had a farm of 3/. or 41. by yoar at the uttermost, and hereupon lie tilled so much as kept half... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1860 - 568 pages
...before King Edward VI., on March 8, 1519, he gave the following curious account of his parentage : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; onely he had a farme of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost ; and hereupon he tilled so... | |
 | John Tulloch - Reformation - 1860 - 436 pages
...highly significant and interesting. The natural healthiness of his earlier years at the Leicestershire farm, of " three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost," reappears in all his future career as a student, a preacher, a bishop, a martyr. The same simple spirit,... | |
 | John Tulloch - Reformation - 1860 - 314 pages
...highly significant and interesting. The natural healthiness of his earlier years at the Leicestershire farm, of " three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost," reappears in all his future career as a student, a preacher, a bishop, a martyr. There is the same... | |
 | George Long Duyckinck - 1861 - 234 pages
...furnished his biographers with their entire stock of information respecting his birth and parentage. " My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm (on which he paid a rent) of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1862 - 516 pages
...Latimer's account of the scale of rents before the Reformation. 26 Principle of State Interference. CH. i. had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three...the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1862 - 514 pages
...and 13. f Sermons, p. 101. Latiraer's account of the scale of rents before the Reformation. 26 CH. i. had no lands of his own ; only he had a farm of three...the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-adozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.... | |
 | Literature - 1891 - 938 pages
...demoralised, Latimer, preaching before the king, relates : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lauds 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. lie had walk for... | |
 | 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... | |
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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 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... 
