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Bosworth being no great distance from Thurcaston, Latimer the father is likely to have been present in the battle, on one side or the other the right side in those times it was no easy matter to choose but he became a good servant of the new government and the little Hugh, when a boy of seven years old, helped to buckle on his armour for him, "when he went to Blackheath field."
The father of Latimer was a solid English yeoman, of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. "He had no lands of his own," but he rented a farm "of four pounds by the year," on which "he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men;" "he had walk for a hundred sheep, and meadow ground for thirty cows."
Hugh Latimer, a farmer's son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when sent to Clare College, Cambridge.
The father of Latimer was a solid English yeoman, of Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. "He had no lands of his own," but he rented a farm "of four pounds by the year," on which "he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men;" "he had walk for a hundred sheep, and meadow ground for thirty cows."
Bosworth being no great distance from Thurcaston, Latimer the father is likely to have been present in the battle, on one side or the other, the right side in those times it was no easy matter to choose, but he became a good servant of the new government, and the little Hugh, when a boy of seven years old, helped to buckle on his armour for him, "when he went to Blackheath field."
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