shall destroy or take away the Eggs of any Wild-Fowl in pain to forfeit for every Egg of a Crane or Bustard so taken or destroyed 20 d. Of a Bittern Hern or Shoveland 8 d. And of a Mallard Zeal or other Wild-Fowl 1 d. to be divided betwixt the King and the Prosecutor Stat. 23 Eliz. cap. 10. None shall Kill or take any Pheasants or Partridges with any Net or Engine in the night-time in pain to forfeit for every Pheasant 20 s. And for every Partridge 10 s. which if the Offender pay not within ten days he shall suffer one months Imprisonment without Bail and enter into Bond for two years with good Sureties before some Justices of Peace not to offend in the like kind II. None shall Hawk or Hunt with his Spaniels in standing Grain or before it is Stocked except in his own Ground or with the Owner's consent in pain to forfeit 40 s. to the Owner of the said Ground to be recovered as aforesaid This Act shall not restrain Fowlers who unwillingly take Pheasants or Partridges and forthwith let them go at large Stat. 1 Jacob. cap. 27. Every person convicted by his own Confession or by two Witnesses upon Oath before two or more Justices of Peace to have Killed or Taken any Pheasant Partridge Pigeon or other Game or to have taken or destroyed the Eggs of Pheasants Partridges or Swans shall by the said Justices be committed to Prison without Bail unless he immediately pay to the use of the Poor where the Offence was committed or he apprehended 20 s. for every Fowl or Egg so killed taken or destroyed and after one Months Commitment shall before two or more Justices of Peace be bound with two sufficient Sureties in 20 l. apiece with condition never to offend in the like kind again II. Every person convicted as abovesaid to keep a Grey-hound Dog or Net to kill or take Deer Hare Pheasant or Partridge unless he have Inheritance of 10 l. per Annum a Lease for life of 30 l. per Annum or be worth 200 l. in Goods or otherwise be the Son of a Baron or Knight or Heir apparent of an Esquire shall suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid unless he pay 40 s. to the use abovesaid III. None shall sell or buy to sell again any Pheasant or Partridge except by them reared up or brought from beyond Sea in pain to forfeit for every Pheasant 20 s. and every Partridge 10 s. to be divided betwixt the Prosecutor and the Poor of the parish where such Offence is committed Stat. 7 Jacob. cap. 11. Every person convicted by his own Confession or by two Witnesses upon Oath before two or more Justices of Peace to have Hawked or destroyed any Pheasant or Partridge betwixt the first of July and the last of August shall suffer one Moneths Imprisonment without Bail unless he pay to the use of the Poor where the Offence was committed or be apprehended 40 s. for every time so hawking and 20 s. for every Pheasant or Partridge so taken or destroyed But this offence shall be prosecuted within six months after it shall be committed II. It shall be lawful for the Lord of a Mannor or any having free Warren Inheritance of 40 l. per Annum Free-hold of 80 l. per Annum or Goods worth 400 l. or their Servants Licensed by them to take Pheasants or Partridges within their own Grounds or precinct so they do it in the day-time and only betwixt Michaelmass and Christmass III. If any person of a mean condition shall be convicted by his own Confession or by one Witness upon Oath before two or more Justices of the Peace to have killed or Taken any Pheasant or Partridge with Dogs Nets or Engines he shall by the said Justices be Committed to Prison without Bail unless he pay to the use of the Poor where the Offence was committed 20 s. for every Pheasant or Partridge so killed or taken And also become bound before one or more Justice of Peace in a Recognizance of 20 l. never to offend in the like kinde agaiu IV. Every Constable or Headborough upon Warrant under the hand of two Justices of Peace hath power to search the Houses of persons suspected to have any Setting-Dogs or Nets for the the taking of Pheasants or Partridges and the Dogs or Nets there found to kill and cut in pieces at pleasure as things forfeited unto the said Officers V. He that shall be punished by vertue of this Act shall not be punished again by vertue of any other Law for the same Offence Barbel Tench Roach Dace Gudgion Pearch Loach Eele Grayling Salmon Trout Carp Bream Pike THE GENTLEMAN'S Recreation Containing DIRECT RULES FOR THAT Noble and Delightful ART OF ANGLING Whereunto is annexed An Abstract of all such Statute for penal Laws relating to that Curious Art The Fourth Part. LONDON Printed by J. C. for N. C. OF FISHING The Introduction ANGLING is an excellent Art which as it pleads great Antiquity so the knowledge thereof is with much difficulty to be obtained and indeed it bears some similitude to Poetry in this that as it is said Poeta nascitur non fit so ought the Piscator or Fisher-man to have a natural inclination unto the Art of Angling or his knowledge therein will be always dull and imperfect not but that it may be much heightned by practice and experience Now he that intends to be his Crafts-master in this harmless Pastime or Recreation must not onely diligently search and enquire into the mysteries and depths of this Art but must also be furnished as aforesaid with a natural propensity thereunto attended with observation and Patience And having gotten by observationand practice a competent knowledge or having conquer'd the difficulties of Angling it will then not onely prove pleasant but profitable and be like Vertue a Reward to it self Now that I may farther commend this ingenious profession be pleased to take notice of the Antiquity thereof some saying it is as ancient as Deucalion's Flood Some attribute it to the invention of one Belus the first Author of vertuous Recreations Others say that Seth left the knowledge of Angling to his posterity ingraven on brazen Pillars with the first Rudiments of the Mathematicks and other useful Arts by which means they were preserved from perishing in the universal Deluge Divers are the opinions of men concerning the Antiquity of this Art let it suffice that certainly it is older than Christ's Incarnation for both Job and the Prophet Amos make mention of Fish-hooks and consequently there must be Anglers then in those days The next thing that offers it self in the commendation of this Art is the benefit of Contemplation which is acquired hereby which is a thing according to the opinion of some learned Cloister'd men to be preferred before Action because say they it makes us mortals the nearer to come to the Creator by way of imitation for he is all Contemplation of his own infinite Power Goodness
beaten to powder of either two ounces mingle all these well together and lay it on the place afflicted For Swelling in the Throat By reason of a humour distilling from the brain the throat of a Spaniel will often swell unreasonably For cure whereof anoint the grieved place with oil of Camomile then wash it with vinegar not over-strong mixed with salt Probatum est Of Worms breeding in the Hurts and Mangy parts of a Spaniel These worms do hinder the cure of the mange or wounds causing them to continue at one stay or to grow worse and worse To remove this hindrance take the gum of Ivy and convey it into the wound and let it there remain a day or two washing the wound with Wine and after that anoint it with Bacon-grease oil of Earth-worms and Rue The powder of wild Cucumbers is excellent good to kill these worms and will prove a good corrosive also eating away the dead flesh and increasing the good If the worms be within the body you must destroy them in this manner Cause your Spaniel by fair means or foul when fasting to eat the yolk of an egg with two scruples of Saffron pulverized and confected with the same egg keeping him after it fasting till night When a Spaniel is hurt as long as he can come to lick the wound with his tongue he needs no other remedy his tongue is his best Chirurgeon but when he cannot do that then such wounds as are not venomous you may cure with the powder of Matresilva dried in an oven or in the Sun If it be a bite of a Fox anoint it with oil wherein Earth-worms and Rue have been boiled together If by a mad dog let him lap twice or thrice of the broth of Germander and eat the Germander too boiled Others bore the skin of his neck through with a hot-Iron just betwixt his ears so as the fire may touch both sides of the hole made after that plucking up the skin of the dog's shoulders and flanks backwards thrust it through with a hot-Iron in like manner by giving the venom this vent it is a ready way to cure him To help a Spaniel that hath lost his sense of Smelling Spaniels sometimes by reason of too much rest and grease or some other accident do lose their sense of smelling so as they cannot spring or retrive a fowl after their usual manner To recover it again take Agarick two drams Sal Gemma one scruple beat these into powder and incorporate them with Oxymel making a pill as big as a nut cover it with butter and give it the dog by fair means or foul This will bring him into a quick scent as I have oftentimes proved it The benefit of cutting off the tip of a Spaniel's Tail or Stern It is necessary for several reasons to cut off the tip of a Spaniel's stern when it is a whelp First by so doing worms are prevented from breeding there in the next place if it be not cut he will be the less forward in pressing hastily into the covert after his game besides this benefit the dog appears more beautiful An Abstract of such Penal LAWS As relate to HUNTERS and HUNTING STat. 13 R. 2. cap. 13. No man who hath not lands of 40 s. per ann nor Clerk who hath not 10 l. revenue per an shall have or keep any Grey-hound Hound Dog Ferret Net or Engine to destroy Deer Hares Coneys or any other Gentlemans Game in pain of one whole years imprisoment which Iustices of Peace have power to inflict Stat. 1 H. 7. cap. 7. If any shall hunt within Forests Parks or Warrens in the night-time or disguised one of the Kings Council or a Iustice of Peace to whom information shall be made shall by his Warrant cause the Offender to be brought before himself or some other Councellor or Iustice of Peace to be examined where if he conceal the Fact such hunting shall be deemed Felony but being confessed the Offence is onely Finable at the next general Sessions And here a Rescous of the Execution of any such Warrant shall be also deemed Felony Stat. 19 H. 7. cap. 11. None shall keep any Deer-hays or Buck-stalls save in his own Forest or Park in pain to forfeit for every Month they are so kept 40 s. Neither shall any stalk with any Bush or Beast to any Deer except in his own Forest or Park on pain of 10 l. Stat. 14 15 H. 8. cap. 10. None shall trace destroy or kill any Hare in the Snow in pain of 6 s. 8 d. for every such Offence which penalty assessed in Sessions shall go to the King but in a Leet to the Lord thereof Stat. 3 Jacob. cap. 13. None shall without the Owners License kill or chase any Deer or Coneys in any Parks or inclosed Grounds in pain to suffer three months imprisonment to pay treble damages to the party grieved and to be bound with two good Sureties to the good behaviour for seven years But the party grieved having satisfaction hath liberty to release the Behaviour II. By the same Statute it appears that if any person not having 40 l. per annum in Lands or 200 l. in Goods or some inclosed Ground used for Deer or Coneys worth 40 s. per ann at least shall use any Gun Bow or Cross-bow to kill any Deer or Coneys or shall keep any Buck-stall Ferret Dog Net or other Engine it shall be lawful for any person having Lands worth 100 l. per ann to take such Gun c. from any such person and to convert it to his own use Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 20. None shall unlawfully Course Kill Hunt or carry away any Deer in any Forest Chase Purliew Wood Park or other Ground where Deer have been usually kept within England and Wales without the consent of the Owners or Party chiefly trusted with the custody thereof or he aiding or assisting therein upon pain being convicted by confession or one Witness before any Istice of the Peace within sit months after the Offence of 201. to be levied by distress by Warrant of the said Iustices one moity to the Informer the other to the Owner of the Deer And for want of distress to be committed to the House of Correction or common Goal for one year and not discharged till sufficient Sureties be given for the good behaviour II. It is nevertheless provided that upon punishment of this Statute the penalty of no other Law be incurred Stat. 22 23 Car. 2. cap. 25. It is Enacted That all Lords of Mannours or other Royalties not under the degree of an Esquire may by Writing under their Hands and Seals authorize one or more Game-keepers within their respective Mannours or Royalties who being thereunto so authorized may take and seize all such Guns Bows Grey-hounds Setting-dogs Lurchers or other Dogs to kill Hares or Coneys Ferrets Crammels Low-bells Hayes or other Dets Hare-pipes Snares or other Engines for the taking and killing of Coneys
Hares Pheasants Partridges or other Game as within the Precincts of such respective Mannours shall be used by any person or persons who by this Act are prohibited to keep or use the same And if any person or persons by this Act prohibited to keep or use any Guns Dogs c. as aforesaid be upon good ground suspected to have or keep in his or their custody any Guns Bows or any sort of Dogs c. to destroy Hares Coneys c. Then may the said Game-keeper or Game-keepers or other person being thereunto Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any Iustice of the Peace of the same County Division or Place in the day-time search the Houses Dut-houses or other places of such persons so suspected and if any Gun Grey-hound Bows Setting-dogs c. be there found the same he shall seize detain and keep to and for the use of the Lord of the Mannour or Royalty where the same shall be so found or taken or otherwise to cut in pieces or destroy as things by this Act prohibited to be kept by their degree II. None having Lands or Cenements or some other Estate of Inheritance in his own or his Wifes right of the clear value of 1001. per ann or for term of life or having Lease or Leases of 99 years at least of the clear value of 1501. Nor the Son and heir apparent of an Esquire or other person of higher degree who are hereby declared to be the persons declared by the Laws of this Realm not allowed to have or keep any Guns Bows Grey-hounds Setting-dogs ferrets Coney-dogs Lurchers Hays Dets Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Engines aforesaid But shall be and are hereby prohibited to have keep or use the same All Owners and Keepers of Forests Parks Warrens or Chases being stockt with Deer or Coneys for their necessary use in respect of the said Forests Parks Warrens or Chases are allowed to keep c. III. None may enter wrongfully into any Warren or ground lawfully used or kept for the breeding or keeping of Coneys although the same be not enclosed nor take kill or chase any Coneys there without the consent of the Owner thereof not having any lawful Title or Authority so to do on pain to yield to the party grieved treble damages and cost besides shall suffer three months Imprisonment and after till they find Sureties for their good abearing the person offending being convict by one Witness upon Dath or his own confession is sufficient IV. No person or persons shall take in the night-time any Coneys upon the borders of any Warren or other grounds lawfully used for the breeding or keeping of any Coneys except such as shall be owners of the Soil or lawful occupier or possessor of the ground or any persons employed by him her or them whereon such Coneys shall be so killed or taken upon pain that every Offender lawfully convict as aforesaid shall give the party or parties injured such recompence or satisfaction for his or their damages and within such time as shall be appointed by the Justice before whom such Offender shall be convicted and over and above pay down presently to the Overseers for the use of the Poor of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed such sum of mony not exceeding 10 s. as the said Justice shall think meet And if such Offender or Offenders do not make recompence or satisfaction to the said party or parties injured and also pay the said sum to the Poor as aforesaid then the said Justice shall commit the said Offender or Offendors to the House of Correction for such time as the said Justice shall think fit not exceeding one month V. Provided that what is mentioned in this Act of 22 23 Car. 2. extend not to abridge any Royalty or Prerogative of his Majesty nor to abridge change or alter any Forest-Laws but the same to be of force and remain as if this Act had not been made A further Abstract of some Penal LAWS as concern FORESTS CHASES c. I. There shall be three Swainmotes in the Year viz. one 15 days before Michaelmass another about Martinmass and the third 15 days before Midsummer At the first two of which none shall appear by distress but the Fosters Uerdors and Gest-takers and at the other onely the Fosters and Uerdors howbeit the Fosters and Uerdors shall meet every forty days to see the Attachment of the Forests as well for Green-hue as Hunting And the Swainmotes shall not be kept but in the Counties where they have used to be kept II. Lawing of Dogs shall be made in Forests from 3 years to 3 years by the view and testimony of lawful men and not otherwise Howheit such Lawing of Dogs shall not be but where it hath been used from the Coronation of Hen. 2d III. No Foster or Beadie shall make Scotal or gather Garhe Oats Lamb or Pig but by the sight of the 12 Rangers when they shall make their Range And there shall be so many Rangers assigned for the keeping of Forests as shall seem reasonably sufficient for the same IV. Any person having a Wood in the Forest may agest it and take his pawnage there at his pleasure he may also drive his Dogs through the Kings Woods or elsewhere for that purpose and if they ly all night in the Forest he shall not be questioned for it V. None shall lose Life or Member for killing of Deer but shall be fined for it if he have any thing if not he shall be imprisoned a year and a day and if he can find good Sureties shall then be delivered but if not he shall absure the Realm VI. A Peer of the Realm being sent for by the King in coming and returning may kill a Deer or two in the Forest through which he passeth howbeit it must not be done privily but by the view of the Foster if present but if absent by causing one ta blow a Norn for him lest he seem to steal the Deer VII No Chimage or Coll shall be taken in Forests but by a Forester in fee that farms his Bailiwick and onely of such as buy their Bushes Cimber Bark or Coals to sell it again viz. 2 d. for a Cart and 1 d. for an Dorse to be taken half-yearly and it shall onely he taken where it hath used to be taken and not elsewhere Neither shall any Chimage be taken of such as carry burthens of Bushes Bark or Coal albeit they sell it unless they take them out of the Kings Demesne Woods Thus far Charta Foresta A Forester Parker or Warrener shall not be questioned for killing a Crespasser who after the peace cryed to him will not yield himself so it be not done out of some other former malice Stat. 21 Ed. 1. No Minister of the Forest shall be put upon any Assize Iury or Inquest to be taken without the Forest. Ordin Forestae Stat. 1 Ed. 3. cap. 8. None shall be taken or
year long Morning and Evening whether Windy or Cloudy Weather But if the Air prove serene he may then imitate the Hawthorn-fly which is all black and very small and the smaller the better In May let him take the May-fly and imitate that which is made several ways Some make them with a shammy Body 't is best with black Hair Others make them with sandy Hogs-wool ribbed with black Silk and winged with a Mallards Feather several ways according to the humour of the Angler Another called the Oak-fly is made of Orange coloured Cruel and black with a brown Wing Lastly there is another Fly the Body whereof is made of the strain of a Peacock's Feather which is very good in a bright day These several sorts of Flies will serve the whole year observing the times and seasons Here note that the lightest Flies are for cloudy and dark Weather the darkest for bright and light and the rest for indifferent seasons for which his own Judgement Discretion and Experience must guide him Of late days the Hogs-wool of several colours the Wool of a red Heifer and Bears-wool are made use of which make good grounds and excellent pastime The Natural-fly is a sure way of Angling to Augment the Anglers Recreation Now how to find them take notice that the May-fly is to be found playing at the River side especially against the Rain The Oak-fly is to be found on the But of an Oak or an Ash from the beginning of May to the end of August It is a browntsh Fly and stands always with his head towards the Root of the Tree very easy to be found The Black-flly is to be found on every Hawthorn-bush after the Buds are come forth Now with these Flies he must use such a Rod as to angle with the ground bait the Line must not be so long as the Rod. Let the Angler withdraw his Flie as he shall find it most couvenient and advantageous in his Angling When he comes to deep Water whose motion is but slow let him make his Line about two yards long and dop his Fly behind a Bush and he shall find incomparable sport The way to make the best Paste is to take a convenient quantity of fresh Butter as much Sheeps-suet that is fresh a sufficient quantity of the strongest Cheese can be gotten with the pith of an old stale white Loaf Let all these be beaten in a Mortar till they come to a perfect paste and when the Angler intends to spend some time in Angling let him put hereof the quantity of a green Pea upon his Hook and let him observe what pleasant effects it will produce An Angling SONG COme lay by all cares and hang up all sorrow Let 's Angle to day and ne're think of to morrow And by the Brook-side as we Angle a long Wee 'l cheer up our selves with our sport and a Song Sometimes on the Grass our selves we will lay And see how the watery Citizens play Sometimes with a Fly stand under a Tree And choose out what Fish our Captives shall be Thus void of all care we 're more happy then they That sit upon Thrones and Kingdoms do sway For Scepters and Crowns disquiet still bring But the Man that 's content is more blest than a King An Abstract of such Penal STATUTES As Relate to FISHING 13. EDw. 1. cap. 47. No Salmons shell be taken from the Nativity of our Lady unto St. Martin's day Young Salmons may not be destroy'd nor taken by Nets nor other Engines at Mill pools from the midst of April until St. John Paptist The Penalties you may see in the said Statute at large I. Eliz. cap. 17. None shall take and kill any young Brood Spawn os Fry of Eels Salmon Pike or any other Fish in any Flood-gate Pipe at the tail of a Mill Wear or in any Straights Streams Brooks Rivers fresh or salt Nor take or kill any Salmons or Trouts not being in season being Ripper Salmons or Ripper Trouts Shedder Salmons or Shedder Trouts II. None shall take or kill any Pike or Pickeril not being in length ten inches Fish nor Salmon not being in length sixteen inches Fish nor Trout under eight inches nor Barbel under twelve inches III. None shall take Fish with any manner of Trammel c. in any River or other places but onely with Net or Trammel whereof every Besh or Mask shall be two inches and ½ broad Angling excepted IV. Nevertheless this Statute allows Smelts Loaches Minnows Gudgeons Eeles c. to be taken by Net c. in such places and such ways as heretofore they have been V. The penalty for every offence is 20s and the Fish so taken as also the Engine or Device whatsoever whereby the offence was committed 5 Eliz. cap. 21. None may by day or night break down cut out or destroy any Head or Dam of any Ponds Pools Motes c. where any Fish shall be put in or stored withal by the owners thereof Nor shall Take Kill or Steal away any of the said Fish in the said Ponds c. against the will of the Owner 22 23 Car. 2 cap. 25. It is not lawful for any person to use any Casting-net Thief-net Trammel Shove-net or other Net nor to use any Angle Hair Noose Spear or Trowl Not to lay any Nets UUears Pots Fish-hooks or other Engines Or to take any Fish by any other means or device whatsoever in any River Sew Pond Bote or other UUater Nor be aiding or assisting thereunto without the License or consent of the Lord or Owner of the said Water And in case any person be convict of any of these Offences by his own confession or by Oath of one sufficient Witness within one moneth after the Offence be committed before any Justice of the Peace of such County Riding Division or Place wherein such be committed every such person in Taking Stealing or Killing Fish shall for chery such Offence give to the Party or Parties grieved or injured such recompence for his or their Damages and within such time as the said Justice shall appoint not exceeding treble Damages And over and above pay down presently unto the Overseers for the Poor where such Difence is committed such sum of Money not exceeding 10s as the said Iustice shall think meet And in default of payment as aforesaid the same to be levied by distress of the Difenders Goods by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Iustice before whom the Difender shall be convicted rendring the overplus if any be And for want of Disteess the Difender or Difenders shall be committed to the house of Correction for such time as the Iustice shall think fit not exceeding one Month unless the party offending shall enter into Bond with one competent Surery or Sureties to the party iniured not exceeding ten pounds never to offend in like manner II. And rvery Iustice of Peace before whom such Difender shall be convict may take cut in pieces and destroy all
such Angles Spears Hairs Nooses Trowls Wears Pots Fish-hooks Nets or other Engines whatsoever wherewith such Difender as aforesaid shall be taken or apprehended III. Nevertheless any person aggrieved may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace in their next quarter Sessions who may give relief and make such Order therein as shall be agreeable to the Tenor of this Act whose Order therein shall be final if no title of Land Royalty or Fishery be therein concerned FINIS THE TABLE FOR HUNTING Being the First PART Page INtroduction 1 Terms of Art 4 Some general names of Hounds and Beagels 19 Terms relating to Forests c. 20 Of the Hound Rache and Sluth-hound 28 Of the Blood-hound 29 Of the Gaze-hound 33 Of the Grey-hound 34 Of the Harrier and Terrier 36 Of the Hound Levyner or Lyemer 37 Of the Tumbler ibid. Of the Spaniel 39 Of the White Hound 40 Of Fallow-Hounds ibid. Of the Dun-hound 41 The marks of a good Hound 42 The election of a Dog and Bitch for good Whelps 43 How to enter young Hounds at the Hart c. 44 Of Coursing with Grey-hounds 46 The Laws of the Leash or Coursing 49 The Stiles of Hunting different from the English both Antique and Forrain 52 Of Hart-Hunting 56 The Nature of a Hart 57 Of the Rut of Harts 62 Of the time of Harts Mewing 67 Of the Coats and Colours of Harts and their diversities 66 How to know an old Hart by the Slot Entries c. 67 The names and diversities of Harts-heads according to Hunters Terms 69 How to seek a Hart in his 〈◊〉 or feeding place according to the seasons of the year 〈◊〉 In what manner the Huntsman shall go drawing in the Springs 71 Directions for Harbouring a Stag 72 How to find a Hart lost the night before 73 How to find a Hart in high Woods 74 How to unbarbour a Hart and cast off the Hounds 75 What subtilties are used in hunting a Hart at force 76 How to kill a Hart at Bay 79 Directions at the death of a Buck on Hart 80 Buck-Hunting 81 Roe-Hunting 83 Rain-Deer-Hunting 86 Hart Hunting 91 Of Parks and Warrens 100 Of Coney catching 102 Of the Ferret 104 Of Fbx-Hunting 105 Of Badger-Hunting 111 Of Otter-Hunting 115 Of the Squirrel 118 Of the Martern or Wild-Cat 120 A short Account of Beasts not Hunted in England and first of the Wolf 123 Of Wild-goat-Hunting 126 Of Wild-boar Hunting 128 Of Bear-Hunting 135 Of the Beaver 137 Of the Elk 139 Diseases and Cures of Hounds 140 Diseases and Cures of Spaniels 146 Penal Laws relating to Hunters and Hunting 150 Penal Laws concerning Forests and Chaces c. 155 The Table for HAWKING Being the Second PART THe Introduction Page 1 Terms of Art 4 Of the Haggard-Faulcon 11 How to know the Nature and Disposition of several Hawks and what must be observed from thence 17 Of the Faulcon 20 Of the Manning Luring Flights and Mewing of a Faulcon with other things belonging to an Ostrager 22 Of bathing a Faulcon lately reclaimed how to make her and to hate the Check 26 How to enseam a Faulcon with her Castings and Scowrings 28 General Instructions for an Ostrager or Faulconer 32 How to hood a Hawk 36 How to make your Hawk know your Voice and her own feeding 37 How to make your Hawk bold and venturous ibid. How to make a Hawk know the Lure 38 How to make a Hawk flying ibid. A Flight for a Haggard 40 How to make a Soar Faulcon or Haggard kill at the very first 41 Remedy for a Hawks taking stand in a Tree 42 How to help a Hawk froward and coy through pride of grease ibid. How to make a Hawk hold in her head and not mind Check 43 How to continue and keep a Hawk in her high flying ibid. A flight for the Hern 45 Of the Haggard-faulcon why so called her good shape ' and properties c. 47 Of the Barbary-faulcon 50 Of the Gerfaulcon ibid. Of the Saker 53 Of the Lanner Lanneret and Tunisian 54 Of the Metlin 57 Of the Mewing of Merlins Faulcons c. And which is the best way of Mewing 58 Of the Hobby 61 Of the Goshawk 62 How to make the Soar or Haggard Goshawk 64 How to make a Goshawk fly to the Partridge 65 How to help a Goshawk that turneth Tail to Tail and giveth over her Game 66 How to make a Goshawk fly quickly 67 How to fly a Goshawk to the River 68 An excellent way to preserve a Goshawk in the time of her flying especially in hot weather 69 How to fly the Wild-goose or Crane with the Goshawk ibid. How to Mew a Goshawk and draw her out of the Mew and make her flying 70 Some general Observations for an Ostrager or Faulconer in keeping and reclaiming a Goshawk 71 Of the Sparrow-hawk 73 How to make a Sparrow-hawk whether Eyess Brancher Soar Mew'd or Haggard 74 How to Mew Sparrow-hawks 78 The duty of a Faulconer with necessary Rules and Observations for him to follow 80 Of Diseases and dangerous accidents incident to Hawks and their several Cures 81 Of Castings and Mewtings either good or bad according to their several complexions and smells 82 Of the Cataract 85 Of the Pantas or Asthma 86 Of Worms 87 Of the Filanders ibid. Another approved medicine for Filanders or Worms in Hawks 88 Of Hawks Lice ibid. A safe and easie way to kill Lice in Hawks 89 How to keep and maintain all manner of Hawks in health good plight and liking ibid. Of the Formica 90 Of the Frownce 91 Of the Pip ibid. How to remedy that Hawk which endeweth not nor putteth over as she should do 92 How to make a Hawk feed eagerly that bath lost appetite without bringing her low 93 How to raise a Hawk that is low and poor ibid. How to remedy a Hawk that is slothful and averse to flying 94 Of swoln feet in a Hawk ibid. How to scour Hawks before you cast them into the Mew 95 Penal Laws relating to Hawks and Hawking 97 The Table for FOWLING Being the Third PART WHat Fowling is with the nature and diversity of all manner of Fowl Page 101 Of the haunts of Fowl 103 The readiest way to take great Fowl with Nets 104 How to take small Water-fowl with Nets 105 How to take small Birds with Bird-lime 107 How to take great Fowl with Lime-twigs 109 Of the great and lesser Springs 111 Of the Fowling-piece and Stalking-horse 113 How to take all manner of Land-fowl by day and night 118 Of Bat-fowling 121 Of the Day-net and how to take Birds therewith ibid. Of taking small Birds which use Hedges and Bushes with Lime-twigs 123 How to make the best sort of Bird-lime and how to use it 126 The best and most experienced way of making Water-bird-lime 127 In what manner Snipes may be taken with Bird-lime 128 Of the Bull-finch 179 Of the Green-Finch ibid. Of the Hedge-Sparrow 180 An Abstract of such Penal Laws as concern
she hath cunningly deluded them they fall instantly on her Companion who hath been before-hand with them and revenge themselves on him by depriving him of his life which verifies the proverb Never Wolf yet ever saw his Sire Their Whelps are able to ingender at twelve months end at which age they part with their Dam that is when those Teeth are grown which they cast the first half year and being grown they never shed them again and here see their gratitude though bloody cruel creatures after they have preyed for themselves if they chance to meet their Dam or Sire for Turbervile doth not believe the aforesaid story they will fawn upon them and lick them rejoycing at the sight of them The Dog will never bring any of his Prey to his whelps till he hath filled his own belly whereas the Bitch will not eat a bit till she hath served them first they go nine weeks with whelp and sometimes a little longer and grow salt but once a year As to number of whelps they have more or less as Dogs have for doubtless both the Wolf and the Fox are but a kind of wild Mastiffs and wild Curs They prey upon all kind of things and will feed on Carrion Vermin c. They will kill a Cow or a Bullock and as for a Sheep Goat or good Porket they will roundly carry him off in their Mouths not touching ground with it and will run so fast away notwithstanding the load that they are hardly to be stopped but by Mastiffs or Horse-men There is no Beast which runneth faster than the Wolf and holdeth wonderfully also When he is hunted with Hounds he flieth not far before them and unless he be coursed with Grey-hounds or Mastiffs he keepeth the Covert like the Bear or Boar and especially the bearen ways therein Night is the usual time of his preying though hunger will force him to prey by day They are more subtile and crafty if more can be than the Fox or any other beast When they are hunted they will take all their advantages at other times they will never run over-hastily but keep themselves in breath and force always A Wolf will stand up a whole day before a good Kennel of Hounds unless that Grey-hounds or Wolf-dogs course him If he stand at bay have a care of being bitten by him for being then mad the wound is desperate and hard to be cured When a Wolf falls into a flock of Sheep with his good will he would kill them all before he feed upon any of them and therefore all means should be used to destroy them as by hunting at force or with Greyhounds or Mastiffs or caught in Gins and Snares but they had need be strong For encouragement to the meaner sort in Ireland whosoever took a sucking-Whelp or preying Cub a Dog or a Bitch Wolf and brought but the heads of either to the next Justice of Peace for reward for the first he received twenty shillings for the second forty for the third five pound and for the last six pounds which late encouragement hath in a manner cleared that Kindom of them They bark and howl like unto Dogs and if there be but two of them together they make such a terrible hideous noise that you would think there could be no less than twenty of them in a body When any one would hunt the Wolf he must train him by these means First let him look out some fair place a mile or more from the great woods where there is some close standing to place a brace of good Grey-hounds in if need be the which should be closely environed and some pond of water by it there he must kill a Horse that is worth little and take the four legs thereof and carry them into the Woods and Forests adjoyning then let four men take every man a leg of the beast and draw it at his Horse-tail all along the paths and ways in the Woods until they come back again to the place where the Carcass of the said Beast lieth there let them lay down their trains Now when the Wolves go out in the night to prey they will follow the scent of the train till they come to the carcass where it lieth Then let those who love the sport with their Huntsmen come early and privately near the place and if they are discernable as they are seeding in the first place let them consider which way will be the fairest course for the Greyhounds and place them accordingly and as near as they can let them forestal with their Grey-hounds the same way that the Wolves did or are flying either then or the night before but if the Wolves be in the coverts near the carrien that was laid for them to feed upon then let there be hewers set round the coverts to make a noise on every side but onely that where the Greyhounds do stand and let them stand thick together making what noise they can to force them to the Greyhounds Then let the Huntseman go with his Leam-hound and draw from the carrion to the thickets-sides where the Wolves have gone in and there the Huntsman shall cast off the third part of their best Hounds for a Wolf will sometimes hold a covert a long time before he will come out The Huntsmen must hold near in to the Hounds blowing hard and encouraging them with their voice for many Hounds will strain courtesie at this chase although they are strong and fit for all other chases When the Wolf cometh to the Grey-hounds they who hold them will do well to suffer the Wolf to pass by the first rank until he come further and let the last Rank let slip their Grey-hounds full in the face of the Wolf and at the same instant let all the other Ranks let slip also so that the first Rank staying him but ever so little he may be assaulted on all sides at once and by that means they shall the more easily take him It is best entring of Hounds at young Wolves which are not yet past half a year or a year old for a Hound will hunt such more willing and with less fear than an old Wolf or you may take Wolves alive in Engines and breaking their Teeth enter your Hounds at them A man may know a Dog Wolf from a Bitch by the tracks of his Feet for the Dog hath a greater Heel a greater Toe greater Nails and a rounder Foot Besides the Bitch casteth her Fiaunts commonly in the midst of an High-way whereas the Dog casteth them either on the one side or the other of the Path. The Reward of the Dogs is thus when they have bit and shaked the dead Wolf let the Huntsman then open his Belly straight along and taking out his bowels let him throw in Bread Cheese and other Scraps and so let the Dogs feed therein Wild-Goat-Hunting I Never could read or hear that there was ever any such Chase in England as the Hunting of the
Celandine well washt Of Swoln Feet in a Hawk Hawks have Swelling in their Feet upon several accounts sometimes by chafing their Feet in flying their Prey striking it and taking cold thereupon sometimes for want of rolling or lining the Pearch with some soft warm cloath or else through gross humours and foulness within which through exercise drop down into their Feet and so cause them to swell lastly this swelling happens by pricks when they fly fiercely into Bushes after Game For a Remedy you must scour your Hawk three mornings together with the pills of Lard Marrow Sugar and Saffron and set her in the Sun two days after this feed her with good meat then take Bole-Armoniack and half the quantity of Sanguis Draconis and having made them into powder temper them well together with the White of an Egg and Rose-water and anoint her Feet twice a day three or four days together setting her on some Cloth to keep her Feet warm How to scour Hawks before you cast them into the Mew When Mewing-time is come you must scour and cleanse your Hawks for in luring and flying-time by foul feeding they ingender Filanders and other Distempers whereof they die for want of timely care and cure When you set down your Hawk use the same as you find Page 246 which will not only kill the Worm but scour a Hawk also The best way is when you mean to cast a Hawk into the Mew first to scour her well according to former directions to cope her and set her up well in flesh to discharge her as near as you can of all Diseases also to free her from Mites and Lice to set her Water sometimes to feed her with young Rats Mice Dogs-flesh Pigeons Rabbets and now and then with some liquid thing and meats laxative Take notice of this special Observation A Haggard is not to be cast in loose to the Mew but is to be mewed on the Fist for otherwise she will become too coy and strange and if she fall to bating and beating her self for heat then must you hood her up or bespout her with cold water which is the readiest way to make her leave Bating You must continue her on the Fist till she begin to shed her Feathers then set her down and tie her to a Stone or Pearch as you do the rest and after she hath mewed and comes to fly then let her stand on a Block or Billet cased or rolled In the same manner mew Goshawks Tierces and Sparrow-hawks onely they will not be born on the Fist but be at liberty in the Mew and very cleanly served Fifteen or twenty days before you draw your Hawk out of the Mew you must begin to abate her of her diet the sooner and better to enseam her And forget not to feed her with washed meat which will prevent many dangers that may follow Many more Diseases there are incident and Accidents happening to Hawks of which with their Cures there are large Discourses written in Italian French and English and therefore I thought fit to insert in this place no other Maladies than what most usually occur If you desire to be further satisfied I shall refer you to those larger and it may be less useful Volumes An Abstract Of such STATUTE-LAWS As concern HAWKING STat. 11 H. 7. cap. 17. None shall take out of the Nest any Eggs of Faulcon Goshawk Lanner or Swan in pain of a year and a days imprisonment and to incur a Fine at the King's pleasure to be divided betwixt the King and the owner of the Ground where the Eggs shall be so taken II. None shall bare any Hawk of English breed called an Eyess Goshawk Cassel Lanner Lanneret or Faulcon in pain to forfeit the same to the King III. He that brings an Eyess from beyond the Sea shall have a Certificate under the Customers Seal where he lands or if out of Scotland then under the Seal of the Lord-Warden or his Lieutenant testifying that she is a forrein Hawk upon the like pain of forfeiting the Hawk IV. None shall take or fear away any of the Hawks abovesaid from their Coverts where they use to breed in pain of 10 l. to be recovered before Justices of Peace and divided betwixt the King and the Prosecutor Stat. 34 Edw. 3. cap. 22. A Hawk taken up shall be delivered to the Sheriff who after Proclamation made in the Market-Towns of the County if challenged shall deliver her to the right owner II. If the Hawk were taken up by a mean man and be not challenged within Four Moneths the Sheriff shall detain her satisfying the party for taking her but if by a man of Estate who may conventently keep an Hawk the Sheriff shall restore her to him again he answering for the charge of keeping her III. If any do take away or conceal a Hawk he shall answer the value thereof to the owner and suffer two years imprisonment and in case he be not able to answer the value he shall remain in Prison a longer time Stat. 37 Edw. 3. cap. 19. He that steals and carries away an Hawk not observing the Drdinance of 34 Edw. 3. 22. shall be deemed a Felon FINIS THE GENTLEMAN'S Recreation Containing DIRECT RULES For the Famous Game of FOWLING With Instructions for the taking of all manner of LAND and WATER-FOWL Whether by FOWLING-PIECE NET ENGINE or otherways With a short Account of Singing-Birds To which is added An Abstract of all Statute or Penal-Laws relating to that curious Art The Third Part. London Printed by J. C. and F. C. for N. C. OF FOWLING OR The compleat Art and Secrets of Fowling either by Water or by Land according to ancient and modern Experience What Fowling is with the nature and diversity of all manner of Fowl FOWLING is used two manner of ways either by Enchantment or Enticement by winning or wooing the Fowl unto you by Pipe Whistle or Call or else by Engine which unawares surprizeth them Fowl are of divers sorts which alter in their nature as their Feathers but by reason of their multiplicity I shall for brevity-sake distinguish them onely into two kinds Land and Water-Fowl The Water-fowl are so called from the natural delight they still take in and about the Water gathering from thence all their food and nutriment Here note that Water-fowl are in their own nature the subtilest and wisest of Birds and most careful of their own safety Hence they have been formerly compared to an orderly and well-governed Camp having Scouts on land afax off Courts of Guards Sentinels and all-sorts of other watchful Officers surrounding the body to give an alarm on any approach of seeming danger For in your observation you may take notice that there will be ever some straggling Fowl which lie aloof from the greater number which still call first Now it is the nature of Water-fowl to fly in great Flocks having always a regard to the general safety so that if you see a