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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simplified spelling of
yeoman .
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Such a letter was hardly likely to have come from a yoman he had persecuted.
Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985
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_ Other two groomes in this office [of Panetry] to help serve the hall, or other lordes, in absence of the yoman, and to cutte trenchours, to make _saltes_, &c.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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¶ Also a Marshall muste take hede yf the kynge sende to your souerayne ony message; and yf he send a knyght, receyue hym as a baron; and yf he sende a squyre, receyue hym as a knyght/and yf he sende you a yoman, receyue hym as a squyer/and yf he sende you a grome, receyue hym as a yoman.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Norfolk with many a gentilman squyer and yoman, tok his barge at seynt
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[Sidenote: The weres were stroyd.] [Sidenote: Travers yoman of the kynges chaumbre was hanged, poysonyng his wyffe.]
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In this yere William Cerle yoman of the robys with kyng Richard, whiche was on of them that mordred the goode duke of Gloucestre at Caleys, was taken in the march of Scotlond and brought to London, where that he was drawen, and hanged, boweld, and his bowels brente before hym, and thanne beheded and quartered at
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Also in this yere was Travars, yoman of the kynges chaumbre, arestyd for poysonyng of hys wyf in Northamptonschire; and on Jonet Legge was also arested for the consentynge of poysonynge of the same woman: and the said Travars was hongen, and his bowels brent, and thanne quarterd; and the said Jonet hadde here lyf.
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unknown title 2009
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& Barronett, haue reseyued & had of John Went - rop of Growghton in the County of SuflF. gent., the somm of fifte and seauen pounds and ten shil - lings for the fyne for the admittance of his son Forth Wentrope to those copyholde Lands which are holden of that my mannour of Layham in the County of Suff. wherof I reseyued forty nyen pounds & ten shillings by the hands of Thomas Hawes of Moch Stambridge in the County of Essex yoman & the residew of the saide Mr. Wentrop.
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