Exempel på yeoman

• As a result, the number of yeomen was halved.

• For the yeoman, a hedge was a protective barrier: for the commoner it was an illegitimate divider.

• Of the twelve women, those whose status can be established were drawn from the settled families of yeomen or husbandmen.

• In this parish, however, it was the better-off husbandmen who controlled this office following the decline of yeoman participation.

• In each parish there was a small group of yeomen, four or five well-off husbandmen or craftsmen and a number of poorer husbandmen.

• Upon their return, most yeomen were starkly reminded of the realities of their situation.

• The power of the teetotaler's cautionary confession is thus made abundantly evident: a yeoman farmer becomes a new-style meritocratic landed gentleman.

• In only three of the thirty-one years for which records of churchwardens survive was a yeoman not elected to the office.

• In rural areas, analysis of occupations shows yeomen well represented, alongside husbandmen and artisans, but labourers almost entirely absent.

• But he did not believe that once corruption was removed, the king would rule justly, helped by sturdy yeomen like himself.

• The involvement of yeoman and gentry as overseers of the poor was greater in these parishes.

• In both parishes three-quarters of overseers of the poor were yeomen or lesser gentry.

• The state benefited from yeomen who were substantial enough to pay taxes, and won battles as archers.

• This, in combination with a process whereby individual yeomen's holdings were gradually purchased by a few wealthy farmers, had a considerable impact in some parishes.

• Officeholding could become the preserve of a yeoman oligarchy or it could incorporate a relatively wide spectrum of the population.