 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.  The Life of Bernard Gilpin - Page 78by William Gilpin - 1824 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...describes his father's condition has been often quoted : — " 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-adozen men; he had walk for a... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society - 1870 - 460 pages
...such as Hugh Latimer's father lived in. "My father," says the MartyrBishop in one of his sermons, " was a yeoman, and had no land of his own, only he had a farm of £3. or £&. by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept a half dozen men. He... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 248 pages
...with it. Here, however, we are 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... | |
 | E S. P - 1872 - 594 pages
...happiness, and indu^ry of | his father's family. " My father," ; says he, " 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. He had walk... | |
 | 1874 - 400 pages
...distinctly declaring it. For instance, in one of his sermons ho thus speaks of his parentage : " My father had no land of his own ; only he had a farm of £3 or £4 a-year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1874 - 512 pages
...happiness, and industry of his father's family. " My father," says he, " 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... | |
 | James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1876 - 532 pages
...the King * Third Sermon before the King. -1558] EFFECTS 'OF PROTESTANTISM 473 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...his neighbour drink, all the great gain goeth another way. 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 hercupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1878 - 520 pages
...2 Latimcr's Second Sermon before the King. a Third Sermon before the King. 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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