 | 1863 - 1046 pages
...father's bouse, and "of his own boyLood, in his sermous. " My father was a yeoman, and had no land 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 liad a... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...from his sermons in which he 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... | |
 | John Tomlinson - Yorkshire (England) - 1865 - 246 pages
...(knights and squires)" apparelled in his own collars." * Latimer, in one of his sermons says—" 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 hereN treqnenfc among the " common folke," while it is clear that, during... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...affected his vitals, and he died in lingering anguish.2 A YEOMAN OF HENRT SEVENTH 8 TIME. 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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Great Britain - 1866 - 280 pages
...persons. He is now preaching before Bang Edward, as he did before the Convocation ;— " 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 walks for... | |
 | George Brodie - Constitutional history - 1866 - 590 pages
...slauery.' lie gives likewise a curious picture of his father's family, to prove the change of times. 'My father,' says he, 'was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own? onely he had a farnie of 3 or 4 pound by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...thought or tender feeling. He was 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...interfere, with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable inrormation. 'My father," says Latimer, 'was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he had a/arm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much a* kept... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - England - 1870 - 644 pages
...with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable information. 'My father,' says Latimer,2 ' 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... | |
 | 1870 - 340 pages
...wonder at Hugh Latimer's often-quoted but graphic description of his father's house : — " 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 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. 
