1. Enclosed Field with Ploughman was made in August 1889, which is held in a private collection (F625).

2. Is no ableman butt he hathe a bow and a shefe of arrows allottyd to Henry Ploughman Aforeseyd his son

3. The young ploughman at the Barnyards of Delgaty had gone to the town of Turriff (Turra) to ‘fee’ - to get employment on a farm for three or six months

4. An Almanac for 1582 predicts the commons will be "factious...quarrelous, impatient, and outragious, one envying the estate and degree of another: as the poor the rich, the ploughman the gentleman."