5. ¶ The necessary thynges that belonge to a ploughe, carte, and wayne.
[Sidenote: Bows, yokes, &c.] Bvt or he begyn to plowe, he muste haue his ploughe and his ploughe-yren, his oxen or horses, and the geare that belongeth to them; that is to say, bowes, yokes, landes, stylkynges, wrethynge-temes. And or he shall 4 lode his corne, he muste haue a wayne, a copyoke, a payre of sleues, a wayne-rope, and a pykforke. This [Sidenote: The wain.] wayne is made of dyuers peces, that wyll haue a greate reparation, that is to saye, the wheles, and those be made 8 of nathes, spokes, fellyes, and dowles, and they muste be well fettred with wood or yren. And if they be yren bounden, they are moche the better, and thoughe they [Sidenote: [Fol. 5.]] be the derer at the fyrst, yet at lengthe they be better 12 [Sidenote: Iron-bound wheels.] cheape; for a payre of wheles yren bounde wyl weare vii. or viii. payre of other wheles, and they go rounde and lyght after oxen or horses to draw. Howbeit on marreis ground and soft ground the other wheles be better, 16 bycause they be broder on the soule, and will not go so [Sidenote: Axle-tree, linch-pins, and axle-pins.] depe. They must haue an axiltre, clout with .viii. waincloutes of yren, ii. lyn-pinnes of yren in the axiltre-endes, ii. axil-pynnes of yren or els of tough harde 20 wodde. The bodye of the wayne of oke, the staues, the nether rathes, the ouer rathes, the crosse somer, the keys and pikstaues. And if he go with a hors-ploughe, than muste he haue his horses or mares, or both his hombers or 24 collers, holmes whyted, tresses, swyngletrees, and togwith. [Sidenote: The cart.] Alsoo a carte made of asshe, bycause it is lyghte, and lyke stuffe to it as is to a wayne, and also a cart-sadel, bakbandes, and belybandes, and a carte-ladder behinde, 28 whan he shall carye eyther corne or kyddes, or suche [Sidenote: Cart-ladders.] other. And in many countreys theyr waynes haue carte-ladders bothe behynde and before. Also an husbande [Sidenote: Axe, hatchet, &c.] muste haue an axe, a hachet, a hedgyngebyll, a pyn-awgur, 32 a rest-awgur, a flayle, a spade, and a shouell. And howe-be-it that I gyue theym these names, as is most comonly [Sidenote: [Fol. 5_b_.]] vsed in my contrey, I knowe they haue other names in other contreyes. But hereby a manne maye perceyue 36 [Sidenote: Expense of husbandry.] many thynges that belonge to husbandry, to theyr greate costes and charges, for the mayntenance and vpholdyng of the same. And many moo thynges are belongynge to husbandes than these, as ye shall well perceyue, er I 40 haue made an ende of this treatyse. And if a yonge husbande shulde bye all these thynges, it wolde be [Sidenote: It is better to make than buy.] costely for hym: wherfore it is necessarye for hym to lerne to make his yokes, oxe-bowes, stooles, and all 44 maner of plough-geare.