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A07166	A booke of fishing with hooke & line, and of all other instruments thereunto belonging. Another of sundrie engines and trappes to take polcats, buzards, rattes, mice and all other kindes of vermine & beasts whatsoeuer, most profitable for all warriners, and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime. Made by L.M.	Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.; Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? Boke of Saint Albans.	1590 (1590)	STC 17572; ESTC S120078	48,617	97

willow boughes which ye shall put in the midst of your bottle or faggot of hay and then sinke it in the déepe by the banke and so let it lie two or thrée dayes and tie a wythe or rope thereunto that ye may soone plucke it vp on land or boate and so ye shall take yéeles therein good store in a colde weather very good And if ye baite or lay in your fagotte guttes or garbedge of a beast yee shall be the more certaine to haue them in a small time How to breede and increase yeeles in riuers pondes and standing waters THe common saying among fisher men is if ye wil haue in your pits and pondes being of a swéete water great plentie of Yéeles in few yeares ye shall digge two round or square turfes or so many as ye will haue and cut them on a swéete ground a short grasse a foote or more round or square turfes whereon the dewe shewes most in the morning before the sunne doe rise Then take them vp and clappe the gréene sides together one vpon another and pin them fast together with prickes of wood Then carrie and lay them softly in what pit or pond ye list and ye shall sée experience This is to be done in the moneth of May by the dew then on the ground and at no other time else of the yeare to be good The Gase for to catch Menowes THis Gase is a round net of small mesh with a hoope of yeirne or great wier halfe an intch about and to let sinke in a ditch or brooke which is not déepe and so holde it a while by thrée strings like a ballans with a loope in the toppe and therein to put through a staffe or poale and yée shall haue within a while so many Menowes which will come and gase at it as will couer it ye must hang a small plommet in the middest to make it sinke And also the roundes must be flat oyster shelles tyde to and the squares must be scarlet or red cloth sowed on your hoope and net may be thrée quarters and a halfe of a yeard broad from side to side Thus much for the Gase How to bobbe for yeeles THere is also a taking of yéeles with great wormes drawen through on a long thréede one by an other and then feulded vp thrée fingers déepe and then tyde aboue all together and a bigge string tide thereunto and fastened bnto a short poale which ye shall holde in your hand This is vsed to bobbe at the comming of a floud water and at the ebbing water of any water that ebbes and flowes Also it is vsed after a great raine in brookes and running waters ye must let your bobbe touch the bottome and so vp with it softly againe and so vse it still and ye shall féele when any yée le doe bite then pluck it vp not very fast for then he will forsake the worme he hath hold of and as soone as he féeles the ayre he will léese his holde therefore yée must haue a vessell on the water alwaies readie that hée may fall therein Thus much for the bobbing for yéeles The yee le speare to take yeeles The Otter Speare THe Yée le speare is made with fiue thinne barres cut in the sides with téeth to holde that yée le that is within them and made with thicker and rounder plates aboue toward the socket which socket must be made strong and therein put your poale or staffe which they vse in mudde riuers and brookes to take a dish of yéeles at pleasure but it is euill to vse the yée le speare whereas there is Teech or Carpe for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beaten or troubled and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Otter in riuers or brookes when as a man shall chance to sée him vent aboue the water then to throw the speare at him which speare hath a line tide at the ende and a small boxe fastened at the end of the line that when yee haue stricken him ye shall the sooner perceiue him where he diueth in the riuer Or if ye chaunce to finde him lying out of the water there to strike him and let him go into the water and so kill him To breede Millars-thumbes and Loches in shallow brookes or riuers THe fishes called Loches and the other called Millars-thumbes or Culles they alwayes féede in the bottome of brookes and riuers They are fish holesome to be eaten of féeble persons hauing an ague or other sicknesse These fish delight to be in sandie grauell in riuers and brookes and they are very easie to be taken with small trauell in remouing the stones where they lie vnder for they cannot swim fast away Therefore in certaine shallow riuers brookes they do vse to bréede and saue them ye may in laying round heapes of pebble stones or flint in shallow places of the saide riuers and brookes halfe a foote déepe of water or lesse Like as there is a shallow riuer running from Bareamstede to Chestum and so to Chaue also by Croyden and other places wherein they might bréede of the saide fish great store if they were so giuen The like riuer runnes in Hampeshiere by sides Altum increasing by diuerse springes and runnes shallow in many placed and by a certaine parish there called the Parson thereof hath tolde me he hath had so many of the saide Culles and Loches to his tithe wéekely that they haue founde him sufficient to eate Fridayes and Saterdayes whereof he was called the Parson of Culles This order of stones are laide hollow in shallow places lesse then halfe a foote déepe of water Which fish among the saide heapes of stones doth there lie safe and so bréedes and there they are saued from the water Rats and all other foules which otherwise would still deuour them These store of fish men might haue in diuerse such like riuers in this Realm if they would take the like paine to lay such heapes of stones as is aboue set downe which sheweth the maner of laying them round in the bottome the circuit of two yeardes about or as yée shall sée cause Thus much I thought good to shew for the maintenance and bréeding of Culles and Loches Also it is euident in other Countries the great care they haue in preseruing their fish especially in the spring as in France no fisher men or other shall lay any engins in riuers or brookes in the night as flewes stalles buckes kéepes weles and such like from mid March to mid May for then the fish doeth shed their spawne among wéedes and bushes nor shall not beate the waters or brookes with any plonging poales nor yet the fisher men to fish at no time with any net vnder foure inches mash because they shall not kill the small fish before they are well growen vppon paine of forfaite and losse of all such engins

in this Realm of this graine viij bushels There is counted two fiftie thousande parishes so then there is two and fiftie quarters of graine destroyed yearely by Crowes and such like besides a number of other pultrie about mens houses deuoured by Crowes and Kytes and chiefely it is thought thorough the negligence of slouthfull husbandes which yearely toyles and labours to sowe corne and regardes not after the sauing of the same or yet to wage or giue to other according to the statute that would in winter and other times be glad to take paine to take destroy them Thus I haue declared touching the destruction of corne by crows and such like and the profite and gaine that would come thereby in vsing the saide nettes in each parish thorough the Realme which nets may well be vsed all the winter and also from March till Midsommer or somewhat after Ye may also baite your shrape with flesh or some carrion and so ye may take Kytes flesh Crowes Rauens and such like when ye sée cause The laying your nette is easle but to make him cast well is all in the setting the tayle pinne and placing the pully stake in drawing your vpper line Also in Iuly and August ye may well vse the lime bush and the call for Sparrowes A baite to kill Rattes and Mice TAke of Argentum sublimatum of regall and of Arsenicke of each a dram with twentie figges of the fattest one ounce of hasell nuts rleane pilde and beaten twelue walnuts pild and halfe a pound of wheaten meale also a pound and two ounees of hogges grease with a little hony beaten and kneaded with the foresaide simples First beat all into fine pouders and then mire them all together so done then make them into little pellets and lay them in your house where ye shall thinke good for the Rattes to receiue and set water by them Taken out of Dutch Or you may take swéete creame mixt with sugar and laid in shelts and strowe the fine pouder of Arsenicke thereon Another compound for Rattes TAke swéeté creame and mixe it well with sugar then take the crummes of white bread with small péeces and put therein and make it somewhat thicke Then make it séeth and stirre it still till it be as thicke as pappe then take it off the fire and put therein of scraped chéese and stirre it all well together so doue take the fine pouder of regall and pouder of Arsenicke and put it therein and stirre it well all together so ye may lay it on shelts or tyle stones where ye shall thinke best yet some herein will but strow the saide pouders thereon when they haue layde it and it will serue so very well or make the herbe Pedelion in pouder and lay it on your meate which herbe is the field clof An other way for the same TAke of faire colde water and mixe it with fine wheate flower and then worke it well all together sée there be no lumpes of flowar vnbroken then boyle it softly and stirre it alwayes for burning and when it waxeth thicke put in sugar then take it from the fire and mixe it with a little clarified hony and being thicke like pappe put therein as much as ye shall sée good of the fine pouder of Arsenicke and then beate and stirre it all well together and so when it is colde ye may lay it where ye shall thinke good A baite for Mice TAke swéete butter otmeale and the pappe of a roasted apple with a quantitie of wheate flower and sugar Then worke these all together and put therein of the pouder of Argentum sublimatum so worke it well together like a paste and so make it into small pellots and laye it where ye thinke good Another to kill Mice ● Dioscorides TAke the pouder of white Elleborie otherwise called néesing pouder and mixe it with barley meale Then put to honny and make a paste thereof then bake it or séeth it or frie it and it will kill those Mice that eates therof An other for Mice TAke of barley meale a quantitie and mixe therewith clarified hony then put thereto a quantitie of the pouder finely beaten of Antimoneum which is like vnto red glasse also put therein a littel clarified shéepes suet then beate and worke them all together and make it in paste and vse it as the other afore rehearsed ye may put of sugar therein if ye list and here is to be noted that when yée shall lay these baytes aforesayde in your houses yee must then kéepe all other things from your Rattes and Mice or else ye shall not haue your purpose of them sulfilled which may be layde for Pies and Crowes An other for Rats Mice Woolfes or Foxes TAke the roote of an herbe called in Latine Aconi●um in English Wolfes bane and make it into a fine powder then stowe of that powder on flesh or other thing what ye will and it shall kill them soone after they haue taken it To take Rauens Pyes and Crowes YE shall take of Nux vomica so called which ye shall buy at the Apothecaries they are gathered in the sea and are as broad as a péece of foure pence and a quarter of an inch thicke or more Those which are the whitest within are counted for the best when ye will ocupie any doe grate or cut one small in thinne slices then beate it into powder if ye can the finer it is the better and the sooner will make the Crowes or Pyes to fall Put of the sayde powder into a péece of flesh and so lay it abroad and yée shall soone sée Pie or Crowe or Rauen take it Then must ye watch hun a while after and ye shall perceiue him to fall downe then must ye follow to take him But if yée let him remaine one quarter of an houre he will recouer againe for this nux vomica it doth but make them drunk and dyzie for a time The Kyte I haue not séene taken for he will cast it vp againe The spring net for Buzard or other kind of foule THis spring net or hoope net is to take the Buzarde on the plaine or to take Crowes Pyes or other small birdes with their naturall baites as the worme for the Blackbird the Nytingale it may be made with a hoope of wood or of yrne or stéele wyar ye must bring the endes together fortie as ye shall thinke good Then lap those ends with horse haire or packth●éed so oft about the ends as ye sée good then put a piune of yrne or of wood betwéene the saide haire or line Then turne twist the haire as ye do for a mouce trappe so stiffe as ye shall sée cause so knocke that yrne pin into the ground where ye will set your net Then take a small string that must be tide in the midst of the hoope which string must haue a knot at the end so put it vnder the wreath of haire and thorow a hole in a pinne of wood set in the ground before the yrne pin and let the knot of the same string rest in the sayd hole Then fill the said hole with an other short pinne of wood made blunt putting it slight into the hole to stay the knot of the string that kéepes downe the net and on that short pinne make a hole or slit put a thorne with a baite theron and when any thing do touch the baite the short pinne will soone fall and the string slips through the hole and so the net turnes suddenly vpon the fowle Thus much for ordering this kinde of net The proch hooke without out the rodde a a The hole to tie the string of the bridge b b The clicket c c The lidde d d The hole to tye the string e e The hole to put through the string on the side f f The pin for the string g g The hole to carrie it by a a The lidde b b The hole to tic the string c c The hole to carry it