 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...Reformation, was born about 1472. In one of his sermons, he says " 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 He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...described the farmer of the early part of the sixteenth century : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no brook as little wrongs, pound by the year, at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | Europe - Europe - 1847 - 202 pages
...illustration of English agricultural life we conclude the chapter. " 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 thereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | George Guillaume - Abbeys - 1848 - 78 pages
...yoman and had no landes of hys own, only he had a farm of iii or iiii pound by yere at the uttermoste, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walke for a hundred shepe, and my mother milked xxx kyne. He was able and did finde the kyng a harnesse,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...VIPi time.] My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of hie own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by till remain : My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury and e lie had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1849 - 714 pages
...last Sermon befare King Edward the Sixth. [Latimer's Father.] " Ыт 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...last Sermon before King Edward the Sixth. [Latimer'i Father.'] " 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 484 pages
...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 an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Pt time."] My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of £3 or £4 by hen, as if he would have sold His tongue, he prais'd it, and such wonders meu. lie had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1850 - 678 pages
...metropolis. " My father," says Latimer, 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 pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
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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... 
