The
yeomanry had risen upon the invaders and driven them back."
He was an officer in the Hertfordshire
Yeomanry and chairman of the Conservative Association.
The
yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.
Says the old ballad--it was a seemly sight to see how Robin Hood himself had dressed, and all his yeomanry. He clothed his men in Lincoln green, and himself in scarlet red, with hats of black and feathers white to bravely deck each head.
"Thou art come in good time, thou and all thy brave yeomanry."
To oblige the great body of the
yeomanry, and of the other classes of the citizens, to be under arms for the purpose of going through military exercises and evolutions, as often as might be necessary to acquire the degree of perfection which would entitle them to the character of a well-regulated militia, would be a real grievance to the people, and a serious public inconvenience and loss.
* The destruction of the Roman
yeomanry proceeded far less rapidly than the destruction of the American farmers and small capitalists.
Her lord, painted at the same time by Lawrence, as waving his sabre in front of Bareacres Castle, and clothed in his uniform as Colonel of the Thistlewood
Yeomanry, was a withered, old, lean man in a greatcoat and a Brutus wig, slinking about Gray's Inn of mornings chiefly and dining alone at clubs.
Neither is that state (which, for any thing I know, is almost peculiar to England, and hardly to be found anywhere else, except it be perhaps in Poland) to be passed over; I mean the state of free servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which are no ways inferior unto the
yeomanry for arms.
So we went on for a few of those dark days, Raffles very glum and grim, till one fine morning the
Yeomanry idea put new heart into us all.
A narrow space, betwixt these galleries and the lists, gave accommodation for
yeomanry and spectators of a better degree than the mere vulgar, and might be compared to the pit of a theatre.
A visit to Reading or Abingdon twice a year, at assizes or quarter sessions, which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddle-bags containing his wardrobe, a stay of a day or two at some country neighbour's, or an expedition to a county ball or the
yeomanry review, made up the sum of the Brown locomotion in most years.