and held by
one man, and thus ploughed an acre a day.

Then there was a 'plain plough without either wheel or foot', very
easy to work and fit for any lands; a double plough worked by four
horses and two men, of two kinds, one ploughing a double furrow, the
other a double depth.

There were also ploughs with a harrow attached, others constructed to
plough, sow, and harrow, but not of much value; and a turfing plough
for burning sod. Carts and waggons were of many sorts, according to
the locality, the greater wheels of the waggon being usually 18 feet
in circumference the lesser 9 feet. A useful implement was the
trenching plough used on grass land to cut out the sides of trenches
or drains, with a long handle and beam and with a coulter or knife
fixed in it and sometimes a wheel or wheels. The following is a list
of other implements then considered necessary for a farm.

_For the field._

Harrows Mole spear Beetles
Forks Mole traps Roller
Sickles Weedhooks Cradle scythe
Reaphooks Pitchforks Seedlip[350]
Sledds Rakes

_For the barn and stable._

Flails Pannels (pillions) Pails
Winnowing fan Pack-saddles Mane combs
Sieves Cart lines Goads
Sacks Ladders Yokes
Bins Corn measures Wanteyes[351]
Curry combs Brooms Suffingles (surcingles?)
Whips Skeps (baskets) Screens for corn.
Harness

_For the meadows and pastures._

Scythes Pitchforks Cutting spade for hayrick
Rakes Fetters and clogs Horse-locks.
Besides many tools.

A considerable variety of manures were in use, chalk, lime, marl,
fuller's earth, clay, sand, sea-weed, river-weed, oyster shells, fish,
dung, ashes, soot, salt, rags, hair, malt dust, bones, horns, and the
bark of trees. Of the oyster shells Worlidge says, 'I am credibly
informed that an ingenious gentleman living near the seaside laid on
his lands great quantities, which made his neighbours laugh at him (as
usually they do at anything besides their own clownish road or custom
of ignorance),' and after a year or two's exposure to the weather
'they exceedingly enriched his land for many years after.' The bones
then used were marrow-bones and fish bones, or 'whatever hath any
oiliness