 Next after the gentry, in respect of that political weight which depends on the ownership of land, was ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the middle ages, a body which, in antiquity of possession and purity of extraction, was probably...  Homes of Family Names in Great Britain - Página lxvpor Henry Brougham Guppy - 1890 - 601 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Stubbs - 1878 - 708 páginas
...lsnd, was ranked the great man claas. body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the middle ages, a hody which, in antiquity of possession and purity of extraction,...to the classes that looked down upon it as ignoble. It was from the younger brothers of the yeoman families that the households of the great lords were... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1878 - 672 páginas
...depends on the ownership of land, was ranked the great man class. body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the middle ages, a body which, in antiquity of...to the classes that looked down upon it as ignoble. It was from the younger brothers of the yeoman families that the households of the great lords were... | |
 | William Stubbs - 1880 - 730 páginas
...depends on the ownership of land, was "° ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry ofclassthe middle ages, a body which, in antiquity of possession...to the classes that looked down upon it as ignoble. It was from the younger brothers of the yeoman families that the households of the great lords were... | |
 | william stubbs - 1896 - 684 páginas
...weight which depends on the ownership of land, was ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the middle ages, a body which, in antiquity of...to the classes that looked down upon it as ignoble. It was from the younger brothers of the yeoman families that the households of the great lords were... | |
 | 1907 - 570 páginas
...which the same Christian names occur over and over again. In the sixteenth century the yeomanry was a body which in antiquity of possession and purity...superior to the classes that looked down upon it as ignoble.1 In this paper we have ventured to place before the Society something of the history of one... | |
 | Jesse Collings - 1908 - 502 páginas
...weight which depends on the ownership of land was ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the Middle ages, a body which in antiquity of possession...probably superior to the classes that looked down upon them as ignoble." 1 There was another order of cultivators which, perhaps, from an historical point... | |
 | Jesse Collings - 1908 - 502 páginas
...weight which depends on the ownership of land was ranked the great body of freeholders, the yeomanry of the Middle ages, a body which in antiquity of possession...probably superior to the classes that looked down upon them as ignoble." 1 There was another order of cultivators which, perhaps, from an historical point... | |
 | Charles Assheton Whately Pownall - 1908 - 622 páginas
...Such a story is not an unusual one. Guppy quotes Bishop Stubbs as saying that the old yeomanry were " a body which in antiquity of possession and purity...probably superior to the classes that looked down on it as ignoble." He adds "the yeomanry in the past were the backbone of the nation. Men rose from... | |
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