Travelers into the Northwest during the early years of the nineteenth century were agreed that the people of that region were almost uniformly marked by the characteristics common to an independent yeomanry.

——19 世纪初到过西北部的旅行者一致认为，该地区的人民几乎都具有独立所共有的特征。

Even in England, the country, perhaps of Europe, where the yeomanry has always been most respected, it was not till about the 14th of Henry VII.

即使在英国，也许是欧洲的国家，一直最受尊重，但直到亨利七世 14 日左右才出现。

What would it have been, had the law given no direct encouragement to agriculture besides what arises indirectly from the progress of commerce, and had left the yeomanry in the same condition as in most other countries of Europe?

如果除了商业进步间接产生的影响之外，法律没有直接鼓励业，并且让处于与欧洲大多数其他国家相同的状况，那将会怎样？

Through the greater part of Europe, the yeomanry are regarded as an inferior rank of people, even to the better sort of tradesmen and mechanics, and in all parts of Europe to the great merchants and master manufacturers.

在欧洲的大部分地区，被认为是低等的人种，即使对于较好的商人和说也是如此，在欧洲的所有地区，对于大商人和制造大师说也是如此。

In Scotland the abolition of all services not precisely stipulated in the lease, has, in the course of a few years, very much altered for the better the condition of the yeomanry of that country.

在苏格兰，废除租约中未明确规定的所有服务， 在几年内大大改善了该国的状况。

But what is of much more importance than all of them, the yeomanry of England are rendered as secure, as independent, and as respectable, as law can make them.

但比所有这些都重要得多的是，英格兰的在法律所能赋予的范围内变得安全、独立和受人尊敬。

Those laws and customs, so favourable to the yeomanry, have perhaps contributed more to the present grandeur of England, than all their boasted regulations of commerce taken together.

那些对如此有利的法律​​和习俗，也许比他们吹嘘的所有商业法规加在一起对英格兰目前的伟大贡献更大。

In Scotland, besides, as no leasehold gives a vote for a member of parliament, the yeomanry are upon this account less respectable to their landlords than in England.

此外，在苏格兰，由于没有租赁权可以投票选举议会成员， 因此在地主面前不如在英格兰受人尊敬。

When the king's troops, when his household, or his officers of any kind, passed through any part of the country, the yeomanry were bound to provide them with horses, carriages, and provisions, at a price regulated by the purveyor.

当国王的军队、他的家人或任何种类的官员经过该国的任何地方时，必须按照供应商规定的价格为他们提供马匹、马车和给养。