Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

17.

Reading edition

A digression to husbandlie furniture.

Barne furniture. 1 Barne locked, gofe ladder, short pitchforke and long, flaile, strawforke and rake, with a fan that is strong: Wing, cartnaue and bushel, peck, strike readie hand, get casting sholue,[E73] broome, and a sack with a band. Stable furniture. 2 A stable wel planked, with key and a lock, walles stronglie wel lyned,[8] to beare off a knock: A rack and a manger, good litter and haie, swéete chaffe and some prouender euerie daie. 3 A pitchfork, a doongfork, seeue, skep[E74] and a bin, a broome and a paile to put water therein: A handbarow, wheelebarow, sholue and a spade, a currie combe, mainecombe, and whip for a Jade. 4 A buttrice[9] and pincers, a hammer and naile, an aperne[E75] and siszers for head and for taile: Hole bridle and saddle, whit lether[E76] and nall, with collers and harneis, for thiller and all. 5 A panel and wantey, packsaddle and ped,[E77] A line to fetch litter, and halters for hed. With crotchis and pinnes, to hang trinkets theron, and stable fast chained, that nothing be gon. Cart furniture. 6 Strong exeltred cart, that is clouted[10] and shod,[11][E78] cart ladder and wimble, with percer and pod: Wheele ladder for haruest, light pitchfork and tough, shaue, whiplash[12] wel knotted, and cartrope ynough. A Coeme is halfe a quarter. 7 Ten sacks, whereof euerie one holdeth a coome,[E79] a pulling hooke[E80] handsome, for bushes and broome: Light tumbrel and doong crone, for easing sir wag, sholue, pickax, and mattock, with bottle and bag. Husbandry tooles. 8 A grinstone, a whetstone, a hatchet and bil, with hamer and english naile, sorted with skil: A frower of iron, for cleaning of lath, with roule for a sawpit, good husbandrie hath. 9 A short saw and long saw, to cut a too logs, an ax and a nads,[E81] to make troffe for thy hogs: A Douercourt beetle,[E82] and wedges with steele, strong leuer to raise vp the block fro the wheele. Plough furniture. 10 Two ploughs and a plough chein, ij culters, iij shares, with ground cloutes & side clouts for soile that so tares: With ox bowes and oxyokes, and other things mo, for oxteeme and horseteeme, in plough for to go.[E83] 11 A plough beetle, ploughstaff,[E84] to further the plough, great clod to a sunder that breaketh so rough; A sled for a plough, and another for blocks, for chimney in winter, to burne vp their docks. 12 Sedge collers[13] for ploughhorse, for lightnes of neck, good seede and good sower, and also seede peck: Strong oxen and horses, wel shod and wel clad, wel meated and vsed, for making thee sad. 13 A barlie rake toothed, with yron and steele, like paier of harrowes, and roler doth weele: A sling for a moether,[E85] a bowe for a boy. a whip for a carter, is hoigh de la roy.[E86] 14 A brush sithe and grasse sithe, with rifle to stand, a cradle[E87] for barlie, with rubstone and sand: Sharpe sikle and weeding hooke, haie fork and rake, a meake for the pease, and to swinge vp the brake. Haruest tooles. 15[14] Short rakes for to gather vp barlie to binde, and greater to rake vp such leauings behinde: A rake for to hale vp the fitchis that lie, a pike for to pike them vp handsom to drie. 16[15] A skuttle or skreine, to rid soile fro the corne, and sharing sheares readie for sheepe to be shorne: A fork and a hooke, to be tampring in claie,[16] a lath hammer, trowel, a hod, or a traie. 17 Strong yoke for a hog, with a twicher and rings, with tar in a tarpot,[E88] for dangerous things:[17] A sheepe marke, a tar kettle, little or mitch, two pottles of tar to a pottle of pitch. 18 Long ladder to hang al along by the wal, to reach for a neede to the top of thy hal: Beame, scales, with the weights, that be sealed and true,[E89] sharp moulspare with barbs, that the mowles do so rue. 19[18] Sharpe cutting spade, for the deuiding of mow, with skuppat and skauel, that marsh men alow: A sickle to cut with, a didall and crome for draining of ditches, that noies thee at home. 20[19] A clauestock and rabetstock, carpenters craue, and seasoned timber, for pinwood to haue: A Jack for to saw vpon fewell for fier, for sparing of firewood, and sticks fro the mier. 21 Soles, fetters, and shackles, with horselock and pad, a cow house for winter, so meete to be had: A stie for a bore, and a hogscote for hog, a roost for thy hennes, and a couch for thy dog.

Here endeth husbandlie furniture.

* * * In the edition of 1577 stanzas 31-46 of Augusts Husbandrie (post) are found here.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · A gofe is a mow (rick); and the gofe-ladder is for the thresher to ascend and descend, in order to throw down the sheaves with the assistanc Note 2 · liened. 1577.Note 3 · A skep is a small basket or wooden vessel with a handle, to fetch corn in and for other purposes.—M.Note 4 · To pare horse's hoofs with.-T.R.Note 5 · "Aperne is an old provincial pronunciation, adopted from a still older napern or nappern; and Halliwell observes, that nappern is still the Note 6 · "To make whyte lethyre. Take halfe an unce of whyte coperose and di. ȝ. of alome, and salle-peter the mowntance of the yolke of an egge, and Note 7 · A Pannel and Ped have this difference, the one is much shorter than the other, and raised before and behind, and serves for small burdens; t Note 8 · "Clouting is arming the Axle-Tree with Iron plates."—T.R.Note 9 · "Arming the Fellowes with Iron Strakes, or a Tire as some call it."—T.R. Strakes are segments of a tire.Note 10 · A cart or wagon whose wheels are hooped and clouted with iron is called in Lincoln a shod-cart or shod-wain. In the Paston Letters, ed. Gair Note 11 · "Of a tough piece of Whitleather."—T.R.Note 12 · "Ten sacks," each holding a coome or four bushels, are only sufficient for a single load of wheat; but farms were not so large, nor the prod Note 13 · A pulling hook is a barbed iron for drawing firing from the wood stack.—M.Note 14 · "A nads" = an adze, an instance (like a nall = an awl, above) of the n of the article being joined to the following vowel. Similarly we have Note 15 · "A Douercourt beetle" is explained by Dr. Mavor as "one that is large (like the rood of Dover once so celebrated) and capable of making a gr Note 16 · In the Hist. of Hawsted, Suffolk, by Sir J. Cullum, 2nd ed. p. 216, we are told that there, in the 14th century, oxen were as much used as h Note 17 · "The ploughstaff is alluded to by Strutt (Manners and Customs, ii. 12): 'The ploughman yoketh oxen to the plough, and he holdeth the plough-Note 18 · "Lightest and coolest, but indeed not so comly as those of Wadmus."—T.R.Note 19 · "Moether" [and "mother", 16. 14.]. This word is derived by Sir H. Spelman from Danish moer = an unmarried girl. "Puera, a woman chylde, call Note 20 · "Hoigh de la roy," that is, excellent or proper; but why, I cannot say.Note 21 · A cradle is a three-forked instrument of wood, on which the corn is caught as it falls from the scythe, and thus is laid in regular order. I Note 22 · St. 15 not in 1577, but as follows:— Rakes also for barley, long toothed in bed, and greater like toothed for barley so shed. and first coup Note 23 · St. 16 not thus in 1577; see note above, and next note.Note 24 · In 1577 the second couplet of st. 16 makes a stanza with the following: Strong fetters and shakles, with horslock and pad; Strong soles, and Note 25 · Tar was the common salve for all sores in cattle. "Two pounds of tar to a pound of pitch," is a good composition for sheep marks.—M. "Every Note 26 · Hog yokes, and a twicher, and ringes for a hog, with tar in a pot, for the byeting of dog. 1577.Note 27 · "Sealed and true," i.e. certified and stamped as correct. In Liber Albus, ed. Riley, p. 233, we read: "No brewster or taverner shall sell fr Note 28 · St. 19 not in 1577.Note 29 · St. 20 not in 1577.