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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. He was... "
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth - Page 31
by James Anthony Froude - 1881
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The sermons of ... Hugh Latimer ... many of which were ... on the ..., Volume 1

Hugh Latimer (bp. of Worcester.) - 1758 - 568 pages
...utmoft, and hereupon he tilled fo much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred fheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the King a harnefs, with himfelf and his horfe, whilft he came to the place that he mould receive the King's wages....
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 9

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1807 - 910 pages
...uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep ; aud my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did...find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember, that I buckled...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 1

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 944 pages
...tilled so much .as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked 30 kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 508 pages
...so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked 30 kilie. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 1

George Burnett - 1807 - 508 pages
...tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked 30 \me. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1808 - 606 pages
...tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk fur an hundred sheep, and my mother milked 30 kine. He was able, and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while lie came to the place that he should receive tlie king's wages. I can remember that I buckled...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 3

Liberalism (Religion) - 1809 - 776 pages
...year at the utmost, and upon which he tilled so nun h as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for one hundred sheep ; and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able, and did find the kin;; [Hen. VII.] a ii.irqe«, with himself and his horse, whilst he came to ihe place that he should...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman ..., Volume 1

James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...much, as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kyne. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to ...

James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 440 pages
...much, as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kyne. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 15

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 - 686 pages
...Notwithstanding, too much which these rich men uc uiraw tired sheep, and mv mother milked thirty kine. He \v;is able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his...
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