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To the charge, bold yeomen! why leave ye the good knight and noble Cedric to storm the pass alone? make in, mad priest, show thou canst fight for thy rosary, make in, brave yeomen! the castle is ours, we have friends within See yonder flag, it is the appointed signal Torquilstone is ours! Think of honour, think of spoil One effort, and the place is ours!"
These free renting farmers, along with the smaller freeholders, made up the "yeomen" of England. The Decay of Serfdom.* It is in the changes discussed in the last two paragraphs that is to be found the key to the disappearance of serfdom in England. Men had been freed from villainage in individual cases by various means.
A moment of silence ensued, and then was heard the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs like the coming of many men; and forth from the glade burst a score or two of stalwart yeomen, all clad in Lincoln green, like Robin, with good Will Stutely and the widow's three sons at their head. "Good master," cried Will Stutely, "how is this? In sooth there is not a dry thread on your body."
And here followeth liber xix. And I warn you that there be none of you but that he be well horsed, and that ye all be clothed in green, outher in silk outher in cloth; and I shall bring with me ten ladies, and every knight shall have a lady behind him, and every knight shall have a squire and two yeomen; and I will that ye all be well horsed. So they made them ready in the freshest manner.
Telford, the Eskdale shepherd, was a man of literary taste, and was especially friendly with the typical man of letters, Southey. Others, of course, were of a lower type. Arkwright combined the talents of an inventor with those of a man of business. He made a great fortune, and founded a county family. Others rose in the same direction. The Peels, for example, represented a line of yeomen.
Leicester was thus compelled to turn back with the rough old Lord to the Pleasance, where Hunsdon heard from the yeomen of the guard, who were under his immediate command, the unsuccessful search they had made for the authors of the disturbance; and bestowed for their pains some round dozen of curses on them, as lazy knaves and blind whoresons.
The Jacobites had been taught to believe that the north-western counties abounded with wealthy squires and hardy yeomen, devoted to the cause of the White Rose. But of the wealthier Tories they saw little. Some fled from their houses, some feigned themselves sick, some surrendered themselves to the government as suspected persons.
Yet there is truth in what he says, for, as you know well, the song was not of the cleanest. I shall stand by him, therefore, and he shall neither be put out on the road, nor shall his ears be offended indoors." "Indeed, your high and mighty grace," sneered one of the yeomen, "have you in sooth so ordained?"
"Why, how now, Fangs!" cried he sternly. "Down, Beauty! Down, sirrah! What means this?" At the sound of his voice each dog shrank back quickly and then straightway came to him and licked his hands and fawned upon him, as is the wont of dogs that meet one they know. Then the four yeomen came forward, the hounds leaping around Will Scarlet joyously.
Keep them always by you, so that ye may tell your grandchildren, an ye are ever blessed with them, that ye are the very stoutest yeomen in all the wide world." At this all shouted aloud, for it pleased them to hear Robin speak so of them. Then up spake Little John.
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