 | Land reform - 1985 - 464 pages
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 | Neal Wood - History - 2023 - 342 pages
...poor. Now, Larimer sorrowfully reported, the present tenant paid sixteen pounds or more annual rent "and is not able to do any thing for his prince, for...his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor." The Commonwealthmen (and some of their contemporaries) lamented the passing of the good old days —... | |
 | Annabel Patterson - History - 1994 - 362 pages
...poor/ whereas the tenant of the same farm in 1549 paid sixteen pounds, "and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor." 26. Rappaport, Worlds within Worlds, pp. 128, 144, citing P. Bowden, "Agricultural Prices, Farm Profits,... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - Classical school of economics - 1999 - 518 pages
...to the poor; and all this he did of the said farm: where he that now hath it, payeth sixteen pound by the year, or more, and is not able to do any thing...his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.' When things had found their level after this great change, the condition of the lower classes underwent... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...did of the said farm." Times changed, however, and the yeoman went to the wall, no longer able to do "for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor." This came of "private commodity," Latimer said. Commodity means self-interest. Shakespeare in King... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1816 - 618 pages
...to the poor ; and all this he did of the said farm : where he that now hath it, payeth sixteen pound by the year, or more, and is not able to do any thing...his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.' When tiiings had found their level after this great change, the condition of the lower classes underwent... | |
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... apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more,... 
