Note 41 — Chapter I · THE FIRST VISITATION OF THE DISEASE—1485.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
In many places women and children were obliged to draw the plough, from the want of draught cattle; they were obliged too to carry on the cultivation by night, that they might not be observed by the king’s inhuman revenue officers.—Mezeray, Tom. II. p. 750.