16. How to fallow. 25 



bulles, and passe not an elne of lengthe, and not soo 

 24. moche as the other, but t'ley be lyke sloted and tinded. 

 And wha« the come is well couered, than it is harowed 

 }Tiough. There be horse-harowes, that have tjTides of 

 wodde : and those be vsed moche about Ryppon, and 

 28 suche other places, where be many bulder-stones. For ^0°'^"" 

 these stones wold weare the }Ten to soone, and those 

 tyndes be mooste commonly made of the grounde ende of Ti^es of the 



■' y «j harrow 



a yonge asshe, and they be more thanne a fote longe in made of ash 

 32 the begATinynge, and stande as moche aboue the harowe 



as benethe. 



And as they weare, or breake, they dryue them downe 



lower ; and they wolde be made longe before, ere they be 

 36 occupied, that they maye be dr}'e ; for than they shall 



endure and last moche better, and stycke the faster. 



The horses that shall drawe these harowes. muste be well Horses for 



harrows. 



kepte and shodde, or elles they \v\\\ soone be tyred, and 



40 sore beate, that they may not drawe. They must haue 



bombers or collers, holmes withed about theyr neckes, 



tresses to drawe by, and a swj-ngletre to holde the tresses Swingle- 

 tree, 

 abrode, and a togewith to be bj1;wene the swyngletre and 



44 the harowe. And if the barleye-grounde wyll not breake 

 with harrowes, but be clotty, it wolde be beaten with 

 malles, and not streyght downe ; for than they beate the [Foi. 13*.] 

 come in-to the erthe. And if they beate the clot on 



48 the syde, it wyll the better breake. And the clot wyll lye 

 lyghte, that the come maye lyghtely come vp. And they 

 vse to role the\T barlev-grounde after a shoure of ravne, Ro"'"? t^e 



' ' ° - ' ground. 



to make the grounde euen to mowe, &:c. 



16. «[ To falowe. 



Nowe these housbandes haue sowen theyr pees, beanes, 

 barley, and otes, and harowed them, it is the beste tyme, 

 to falowe, in the later ende of Marche and Aprvll, for fallow in 



* ' April. 



4 whete, r>e, and barley. And lette the husbande do the 



