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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13396	Certaine experiments concerning fish and fruite: practised by Iohn Tauerner Gentleman, and by him published for the benefit of others	Taverner, John.	1600 (1600)	STC 23708; ESTC S118167	22,240	46

CERTAINE EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING FISH AND FRVITE Practised by IOHN TAVERNER Gentleman and by him published for the benefit of others ANCHORA SPEI LONDON Printed for William Ponsonby 1600. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR EDMOND ANDERSON KNIGHT LORD CHIEFE IVSTICE OF THE COMMON PLEAS RIGHT Honorable my good Lord it was my bap lately to light vpon a Book dedicated vnto your Lordship by one M. George Churchey intituled A new booke of good husbandrie and intreating of fishponds and ordering of the same which booke as it should seeme was first written in Latine by one Iames Dubrauius but translated into English by the industrie of the said Maister Churchey wherin his good meaning and trauell is greatly to be commended I thereby gathering that your Lordship tooke some delight in that practise being before that time minded to put in writing certaine experiments that my selfe had obserued concerning those matters did presently conclude with my selfe humbly to craue that the same may passe vnder your L. protection your vertues also deseruing that I should make choise herein of your Lordship before others as one vnto whom the whole commonweale of this Realme in general is greatly bounden for the great and painfull watchings care and trauell you take in administration of Iustice in your place and calling and therefore I in particular find my selfe willing if by any meanes I may to moue vnto your Lordship any delight or liking though neuer so litle And if your Lordship haue bene any practiser of these delights I meane making of fishponds or planting of fruite I doubt not but you shal in this litle Treatise find somewhat that you knew not before and thereby your delight that way augmented which if it so happen to be my expectation herein is most amplie satisfied Beseeching the Almightie to blesse preserue and keepe you and all yours with such felicitie as your heart desireth This 22. of Ian. 1600. You Lordships in all humblenes IOHN TAVERNER To the Reader GOOD Reader in seeking to shun that Monster Idlenes and hauing a desire by all honest meanes possible to benefit this my natiue countrie of England and finding my abilitie otherwise insufficient to performe the same I haue thought good to set downe some experiments that my selfe haue had concerning fish and fruite of which two things especially of fruite although many authors haue more learnedly written yet many of them being strangers inhabiting in Climates far differing from ours here in England doe also for the most part teach how such fruite as their countries bring forth are to be vsed of which kind of fruites here in England we haue litle or no vse As also concerning fish there are none that haue written in our vulgar tong to anie purpose that euer I haue seene sauing that one Maister Churchey hath procured to be translated into English a Treatise compiled by a stranger a Morauian as I take it Howbeit by reason the translator as it should seeme had no great experience in that matter he therfore that shall practise shall find great want in that booke to supplie his desires that way Notwithstanding the good indeuour of Maister Churchey is greatly to be commended neither is my meaning herein to say what may be said in these matters but onely what things my selfe haue obserued and practised And if I should set downe by way of preface the exceeding great benefit that might grow to this Realme by practising to haue aboundance of the two foresaid cōmodities the preface would grow to a greater volume then now the whole booke containeth And although I know that many men can say more then my self can do herein yet I also beleeue that most men know not so much for whose sake I haue compiled this litle treatise by which if they take either profit or honest pleasure I haue my desire Farewell CERTAINE EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING FISH AND FRVITE FIrst it is requisite to speake of ponds I meane such as be necessarie profitable and conuenient to be vsed with vs here in England not such in which the prodigall Romains vsed to spend their superfluous wealth and treasure rather for vaine ostentation then for any honest recreation of mind or profite vnto themselues or the common wealth whereunto I wold wish our countrey people in all their actions to haue chiefe regard It should seeme that many of the Romains imployed incredible wealth in making of ponds in which with sea water they kept diuerse kind of sea fish for delicacie and wantonnesse rather then profit for that such kind of ponds were onely made neare vnto the sea side wheras the like fish might more conueniently be taken in the sea it selfe I would rather wish the greatest store of our ponds to be made farre vp land in the inmost partes of the Realme vnto which places fish cannot well be brought from the sea to be eaten fresh whilest it is good and sweete The ponds I meane to speake of shall be of two sorts the one digged right downe into the ground by labour of man the other made with a head in a valley betweene two hils by swelling of the water ouer grassie ground not in former times couered with water Those that are digged right downe are for the most part but small and serue indeed to little vse vnlesse it be to keepe fish in for the winter time to spend as need requireth or to feede fish in otherwise of themselues they are not able to sustaine any number of fish in any good sort to increase in grouth or goodnesse of meate and therefore I meane not to speake much of such ponds But the other kind of pond made with a head being rightly ordered as hereafter is mentioned will giue great nourishment to fish without any feeding saue of it selfe It is therefore requisite for him that would haue good fish to haue two such ponds with heads so made as with their sluces he may lay them drie when he pleaseth and againe to fill them with water when he shall thinke good to the end that one of them may lie drie one yeare the other the next yeare The greatnesse of his ponds may be according to the aptnes of the place where he maketh them and to the cost he meaneth to bestow And that valley that hath not any sudden descent but descendeth by little little hauing also some littell rill or brooke running through it is fittest for this purpose by reason that in such places a man shall with least charges in making the head ouerflow greatest quantitie of ground The sayd ponds are to be made as followeth The making of a pond for fish Hauing a place conuenient viz. a valley betweene two hilles and some small brooke or rill running through the same you are to dig a channell or pond as it were from the one hill to the other ouerthwart the valley and with the earth that you take out of the same to make your head Alwayes making your head downe the streame