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A11257 A ievvell for gentrie Being an exact dictionary, or true method, to make any man vnderstand all the art, secrets, and worthy knowledges belonging to hawking, hunting, fouling and fishing. Together with all the true measures for winding of the horne. Now newly published, and beautified with all the rarest experiments that are knowne or practised at this day. T. S., fl. 1614.; Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? Boke of Saint Albans. 1614 (1614) STC 21520; ESTC S110758 61,935 100

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