 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.  A History of Cambridgeshire - Page 191by John William Edward Conybeare - 1897 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Richard Green - 1878 - 520 pages
...scale of rent that the small yeomanry class had been enabled to exist. "My father," says Latimer, " 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... | |
 | Globe encyclopaedia - 1878 - 666 pages
...Eiu;lbh reformer, was born .-.t Ihurca^tone m Leicestershire, about 1490. 'My father' 1-е says, ' was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of /3 or /4 by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled as much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1878 - 520 pages
...Latimer's Sermon of the I'lovgh. 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... | |
 | 1879 - 996 pages
...brought into the pulpit. Here is an example of a pleasant autobiographical prattle : — " 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 thereupon he tilled so much land as kept... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 462 pages
...condition and manner of life he thus simply speaks in one of his own sermons: " My father," he says, " 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... | |
 | Henry George - 1879 - 600 pages
...twenty or forty pounds a .y«»r," said Hugh Latimer, "now is let for fifty or a hundred. My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own; only he had a farm at a rent of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and thereupon he tilled so much... | |
 | 1880 - 104 pages
...LATIMER told the story of his own parentage in a sermon before King Edward VI. ' My father,' said he, ' 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-a-dozen... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 234 pages
...so accurately, but even in this we are not without tolerable evidence. " My father," says Latimer, " 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... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 542 pages
...chickens, eggs, &c. ; these things with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, "My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound bv year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen... | |
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