14. Spurriers Instruments.
There are some few more of their Tools, which I have seen, and the Works by them made, which you may add to them mentioned, numb.24.
Spur rowel
CXLI. He beareth a Spur Rowel, at
each point a Torteure.
Buckle
The second is Blazoned, a Buckle or Fermale, the
sides adorned with Buttony heads; some term it
Flory on the out-side.
Spur
The third is termed a Heel with a Spur, or Cock
Spur; some call it a Spur shank, with a Nail or
sharp point; such a like shank of a Spur was found in
the Watergate Street in the City of Chester, in the Digging of a Cellar about the year 1670. in a Bed of Sand,
which was shewed to me as a great rarity, and so it was,
for I laid it on an half Sheet of Paper, and scored it out
according to its proportion; being as large almost as the
half sheet would contain. Surely the Sand must be
brought there by the Deluge, or some great Inundation
of Waters, at what time no one knoweth; but that the
Spur did belong to some of the Giants in the beginning
or elder days, cannot be denyed; for Men were never
(by any Writing known to be) so large in these latter
Ages for many Centuries. Some term it a Gag Spur,
others a Prick Spur.
Drench horn
In the chief of this square is placed the Farriers
Drench Horn, a Horn that they put Horse Drenches
or Drinking Potions into, thereby to pour it down the
Horses Throat.
Staff to hold up horse's head
[Included on sheet of draft images but absent from plate]
Pick hammer
CXLII. He beareth a Pick Hammer, with
a rebate about or behind the face of it.
This is
so termed, because it represents an Hammer at one end,
and a Pick at the other.
Barnacles
Image from proof plateIn the Base of this square, is the form and fashion of two other kinds of Barnacles; that on the Dexter side doth resemble some of those mentioned in numb.25. 29. something varying in that it hath a Runner or Ring to make it wider or closer together, as the Runner is drawn up it. That on the sinister side I have mentioned before in numb.31. to which I shall refer you; this is the most properest Barnacle, and in most use with our Grand Farriers, and is termed the Ring Barnacle, having Teeth only on one side, the other plain.
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