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3. The parts of the plough. 



Leicester- 

 shire, &c. 



of an nother maner, and also other maner of ploughe- 



20 yrons, the whyche me semeth generally good, and lykely 



to serue in many places, and specially if the ploughbeame 



and sharbeame be foure ynches longer, betwene the 



shethe and the ploughe-tayle, that the sheldbrede myght 



24 come more a-slope : for those plowes gyue out to sodeinly, 



and therfore they be the worse to drawe, and for noo 



cause elles. In Leycestershyre, Lankesshyre, Yorkeshyre, 



Lyncoln, Norfolke, Cambrydge-shyre, and manye other 



28 countreyes, the plowes be of dyuers makinges, the whyche 



were to longe processe to declare howe, &c. But how 



so euer they be made, yf they be well tempered, and 



goo well, they maye be the better suffred. 



[Fol. 2.] 



3. ^ To knowe the names of all the partes of the plowe. 



Parts of the 

 plough. 



Plough- 



beam. 



Share-beam. 



Plough- 

 sheath. 



Plough-tail. 



Men that be no husbandes maye fortune to rede this 

 boke, that knowe not whiche is the ploughe-beame, the 

 sharebeame, the ploughe-shethe, the ploughe-tayle, the 

 4 stilte, the rest, the sheldbrede, the fenbrede, the roughe 

 staues, the ploughe-fote, the ploughe-eare or coke, the 

 share, the culture, and ploughe-mal. Perauenture I gyue 

 them these names here, as is vsed in my countre, and yet 

 8 in other countreyes they haue other names : wherfore ye 

 shall knowe, that the ploughe-beame is the longe tree 

 aboue, the whiche is a lytel bente. The sharbeame is the 

 tre vnderneth, where-vpon the share is set ; the ploughe- 



12 sheth is a thyn pece of drye woode, made of oke, that is 

 set fast in a morteys in the plough-beame, and also in to 

 the share-beame, the whiche is the keye and the chiefe 

 bande of all the plough. The plough-tayle is that the 



16 husbande holdeth in his hande, and the hynder ende of 

 the ploughebeame is put in a longe slyt, made in the same 

 tayle, and not set faste, but it maye ryse vp and go 



