26. How to shear rye. 35 



26. ^ Howe rye shulde be shorne. , 

 In the later ende of July, or in the begynnjmge of in July, 



sheax rye. 



Auguste, is tyme to shere Rye, the whiche wolde be 

 shorne cleane, and faste bounden. And in somme 



4 places they mowe it, the whiche is not soo good to the 

 housbandes profytte, but it is the sooner done. For 

 whan it is mowen, it wyll not be so fast bounden : and [FoI. 21.] 

 he can not gather it soo cleane, but there wyll be moche 



8 losse, and taketh more rowme in the barne than shorne 

 come dothe. And also it wyll not kepe nor saue it selfe 

 from rayne or yll wether, whan it standeth in the couer, 

 as the shorne come wyll do. 



27. \ Howe to shere wheate. 

 Wheate wolde be shorne cleane, and harde bounden Shearwheat 



clean. 



m lyke maner ; but for a generall rule, take good hede, 

 that the sherers of all maner of whyte corne cast not 



4 vppe theyr handes hastely, for thanne all the lose come, 

 and the strawes, that he holdeth not fast in his hande, 

 flieth ouer his heed, and are loste : and also it wyll pull 

 of the eares, and specyallye of the comes that be ver}-e 



8 rype. In somme places they wyll shere theyr comes ?.^^^*"°s 

 hyghe, to the entente to mowe theyr stubble, eyther to 

 thacke or to bren ; if they so do, they haue greate cause 

 to take good hede of the sherers. For if the eares of 

 12 corne croke downe to the erthe, and the sherer take 

 not good hede, and put up the eare er he cut the 

 strawe : as many eares as be vnder his hoke or side 

 fall to the erthe, and be loste ; and whan they mowe [FoI. 21*.] 

 16 the stubble, it is great hyndraunce to the profytte of 



the grounde. And in Sommersetshire, about Zelcestre ^^^\ ^^' ^ 



° ' Chester and 



and Martok, they doc shere theyr wheate very lowe, ^her^hear 

 and all the wheate-strawe that they pourpose to make ^°'^' 

 20 thacke of, they do not thresshe it, but cutte of the 



