 The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever, together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 60by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1862 - 532 pages
...yet not that by name, or by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. The ordinance was, That all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty...for ever ; together with a competent proportion of laud to be used and occupied with them, and in nowise to be severed from them (as by another statute,... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - 1865 - 522 pages
...preserving the military power of the nation. — In the earlier periods of English history, the law required that "all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground, or upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever ; together with a competent proportion of land,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...ellipsis. Upon consulting Bacon's ' History of Henry the Seventh,' we read : — " The ordinance was, ' that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up forever; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them, and (by a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 476 pages
...•were vsed with tiucntie Acres of Ground^ and vpwards, should bee maintained and kept vj> for euer; together with a competent Proportion of Land to be -used and occupied with them; and in no wise to bee seuered from them, as by another Statute, made afterwards in his Successors time, was more fully... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...nor once any impositions or tax should be spoken of.' 1 In making farms, &c.] ' The ordinance was : That all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty...proportion of land to be used and occupied with them. By this means the houses being kept up, did of necessity enforce a dweller ; and the proportion of... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...and began that of Henry VIIL— Proportion of land (Lat. pro, before ; portio, share). The order was "that all houses of husbandry that were used with twenty acres of ground and upward, should be maintained and kept up for ever," etc. His object was to increase and perpetuate... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1876 - 482 pages
...yet not by that name, or by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...of land to be used and occupied with them ; and in nowise to be severed from them, as by another statute made afterwards in his successor's time, was... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (of Youghal, the younger.) - 1876 - 104 pages
...yet not by that name, or by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. The ordinance was, that all houses of husbandry, that were used with...of land to be used and occupied with them ; and in nowise to be severed from them, as by another statute made afterwards in his successor's time, was... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - Great Britain - 1876 - 366 pages
...by that name, or by any imperious express prohibition, but by consequence. The ordinance 10 was, " That all houses of husbandry, that were used with..." and kept up for ever ; together with a competent propor" tion of land to be used and occupied with them ; " and in no wise to be severed from them as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 pages
...ordinance was, That all 1 * 4. houses of husbandry, that were used with 6 twenty acres of f))i J\' ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept...together with a competent proportion of land to be used yi.- •• and occupied with them, and in no wise to be severed from them (as by another statute,... | |
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