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4. The tempering of ploughs. 



Plough- 

 man. 



shall cause the easyer draughte, and the yrens to laste 

 moche lenger. The plough-maP is a pece of harde 

 56 woode, with a pynne put throughe, set in the plough- 

 beame, in an augurs bore. 



4. ^ The temprynge of plowes. 



Tempering' 

 of ploughs. 



Rest- baulk. 



[Fol. 3^.] 



Nowe the plowes be made of dyuers maners ; it is neces- 



sarye for an housbande, to knowe howe these plowes 



shulde be tempered, to plowe and turne clene, and to 



4 make no reste-balkes. A reste-balke is where the plough 



byteth at the poynte of the culture and share, and cutteth 



. not the ground cleane to the forowe, that was plowed laste 



before, but leaueth a lyttell rydge standynge betwene, 



8 the whiche dothe brede thistyls, and other wedes. All 



these maner of plowes shulde haue all lyke one maner 



of temperyng in the yrens. Howe-be-it a man maye 



temper for one thynge in two or thre places, as for 



12 depnes. The fote is one: the setting of the culture of 



a depnes, is a-nother : and the thyrde is at the ploughe- 



siot wedges. tayle, where be two wedges, that be called slote-wedges : 



the one is in the slote above the beame, the other in 



16 the saide slote, vnder the plough-beame ; and other whyle 



he wyll set bothe aboue, or bothe vndernethe, but alway 



let hym take good hede, and kepe one generall rule, that 



the hynder ende of the sharebeme alway touche the erthe, 



20 that it may kyll a worde,'' or elles it goth not truly. The 



bloaT'tem'? tempcrynge to go brode and narowe is in the settyng of 



penng. ^^ culture : and with the dryuinge of his syde-wedges, 



forewedge, and helewedge, whiche wolde be made of 



ff thefhTre. ^4 dryc woode, and also the settynge on of his share help- 



eth well, and is a connynge poynte of husbandry, and 



mendeth and payreth moch plowyng : but it is so narowe 



Misprinted ' blough-mal. ' 



2 Sic \ ed. 1598 has 'worme. 



