Note 1266 — Chapter XI · “THE LABOUR’D OX”
Reading edition
W. J. Corbett, in Social England, II. p. 545. Note, however, that towards the end of the sixteenth century (A.D. 1577) William Harrison, in Holinshed’s Chronicle, speaks of “our cart or plough horses (for we use them indifferently),” Bk. III. c. 1 (edition 1807, 1. p. 370).