 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable information. " My father," says Latimer, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he...the 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.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 484 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...the 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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1899 - 680 pages
...under the title of copyhold. In the next reign Latimer in an often-quoted passage says of his father, " 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 halfa-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | R. Monti Carlyle, Alexander James Carlyle - Bishops - 1899 - 198 pages
...He goes on to show how the position of the yeoman has sunk in his lifetime. " My father," he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound byyear at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Katharine Coman, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1899 - 582 pages
...turbulent times. Such a man is described in Latimer's sermon before Edward VI. "My father Train. II. was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a 39I' 392farm of three or four hundred pounds (rent) by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - Great Britain - 1903 - 884 pages
...father, the Leicestershire fanner, whom the Bishop thus described in a sermon to Edward VI. : '•' My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own...the 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.... | |
 | Cathedrals - 1903 - 464 pages
...passage 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... | |
 | James Street - Ilminster (England) - 1904 - 448 pages
...Dear old Bishop Latimer denounces the changed times — " My father was a yeoman, and had no hands of his own ; only he had a farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, thereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother... | |
 | Frederick John Snell - English literature - 1905 - 210 pages
...charming and frank descriptions, which it would be criminal not to quote. My father was a j'eoman, 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 a walk... | |
 | Francis Aidan Gasquet - England - 1906 - 364 pages
...one of his sermons before Edward VI., gives an account of his early life. " My father," he says, " was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own ; only he...the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.... | |
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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 pounds by the 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... 
