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From: Craig Partridge <>
Subject: Re: yeoman
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 22:15:51 GMT


Richard Barney <> writes:

>back in England in the sixteen hundreds, just what did the term"yeoman"
>mean.....I understand it was sometimes given to third or fourth sons of
>a lord or Knight. How was he less...and how was he more than the run of
>the mill. And, is he entitled to use the ESQ after his name?

It was generally used to mean a well-to-do farmer.

Craig

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