If we compare the preceding account with that given by Fitzherbert, we shall see that the two nearly agree. Fitzherbert’s _plough-beam_, _plough-sheath_, and _plough-tail_ are Nos. 1, 2, and 3 above; his _stilt_, _rest_, and _shieldboard_ are Nos. 6, 7, and 8; his _rough staves_, _plough-foot_, _share_, and _coulter_, are Nos. 5, 11, 10, and 9. But he has three additional terms, viz. the _sharebeam_, which is the wooden frame for the _share_, and is called by Markham the _plough-head_ (No. 4). Secondly, the _fen-board_, i.e. _mud-board_, covering the _left_ side of the plough, and fastened to the _left_ of the sheath and the _left_ hale, much as the shield-board is fastened to the _right_ of the sheath and the _right_ hale. Lastly, the _plough-ear_, defined as ‘three pieces of iron, nailed fast to the right side of the plough-beam,’ for which poor men substituted ‘a crooked piece of wood pinned fast to the plough-beam.’ What was the use of this appendage we are not expressly told; but it seems to have been used for fastening the trace to, for draught; see =4.= 34. Fitzherbert also notices the _plough-mal_, i.e. plough-mall or plough-mallet (l. 55), which seems to have consisted of a head of hard wood and a ‘pynne,’ or handle, and to have been loosely stuck into the plough-beam by passing the handle through ‘an augurs bore,’ i.e. through a hole bored in the beam by an augur for this especial purpose. This was no real _part_ of the plough, but only a tool conveniently kept at hand. He does not, however, mention the plough-staff (or akerstaff), which was ‘a pole shod with a flat iron, the purpose of which was to clear the mould-board from any stiff earth which might cling to it while the plough was at work’; Rogers, as above, p. 539. This was originally held in the right hand (see my notes to P. Plowman); but I think it likely that, when a second handle, or _stilt_, came into use, the plough-staff was given up. Wright’s Prov. Glossary gives “_mell_, _mellet_, a square piece of wood fitted with a handle, a mallet.” 10. I. R. says of the _sharbeame_, that “in some Countries it is called the plough-head.” Fitzherbert has already said this, see =2.= 10. 12. _Oke_] Oake or Ashe; I.R. 15. I. R. says of the _plough-tayle_, that “in many Countries [it is] called the Plough-hale, of which they haue two, but the other is fastened to the rough staues and the shelboard.” The other _hale_ is the _plough-stilt_. 25. _sheldbrede_] Shelboard; I. R. 27. _fenbrede_] Senbred; I. R. This is wrong. 32. _to come past_] compasse; I. R. 34. _roughe_] long; I. R. 49. _bende_, _i.e._ bent] broad; I. R. This is inappropriate, for it is somewhat narrow, viz. of the breadth of three inches; see line 52. 55. _plough-mal_] Plough Maule; I. R. As to the parts of a plough, cf. Tusser’s Husbandry, 17. 10, 11; and see above, note to =3.= 1.