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Perhaps lackey's son to become ordinary kind of farmer (6)

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yeoman

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(Other definitions for yeoman that I've seen before include "Historically, English freeholders and footsoldiers" , "(Of old) a free person cultivating his own land" , "Royal attendant" , "Old English soldier or small farmer" , "Warder of the Tower of London" .)

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