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 Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 407 by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1807 Full view -
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