 | Keith Wrightson - 2000 - 388 pages
...History of Henry VII (162.2.) Sir Francis Bacon similarly, though in less detail, traced the emergence of 'the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasants' to the agrarian conditions of the late fifteenth century and to crown policies designed to... | |
 | Karl Marx - 2007 - 322 pages
...penury, and did in effect amortise a great part of the lands of the kingdom unto the hold and occupation of the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen, and cottagers and peasants. . . . For it hath been held by the general opinion of men of best judgement in the wars... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...penury, and did in effect amortise a great part of the lands of the kingdom unto the hold and occupation of the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasants. Now, how much this did advance the military power of the kingdom is apparent by the true... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1806 - 832 pages
...penury ; nun did in e.lect amorti/ea great part ol the lands of the kingdom unto the hold and occupation of the yeomanry, or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasant«. Now, how much this did«aJiance the mimar? power of the kingdom, i= appa.eut by the true... | |
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... a great part of the lands of the kingdom unto the hold and occupation of the yeomanry or middle people, of a condition between gentlemen and cottagers or peasants. 
