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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

the feathers of the winges of the drake with the feathers of the red capons taile or hakell The yellow Fly 5 The yellow Fly in May is good the body made of yellow wooll and the winges made of the redde cockes hackell or taile and of the drake littid or coulered yellow The blacke Fly 6 The blacke Fly or lowper in May the body is made of blacke wooll and lapt about with the herle of the peacockes taile the winges are made of the winges of a browne capon with his blew feathers in the head The sad yellow Fly 7 The sad yellow Fly in Iune the body is made of blacke wooll with a yellow liste of either side the wings taken of the winges of the bozard bound with blacke bracked hempe The More Fly 8 The moorerish Fly is also good made with the body of duskish wooll and the winges made of the blackishe male of the drake The tawny Fly 9 The tawny Fly is good at Sainct Willams day or vnto midde Iune the body is made of tawny wooll and the winges made contrary one against the other made of the whitishe maile of the wilde drake The waspe Fly 10 The waspe Fly in Iuly the body is made of black wooll and lapped about with yellowe thréede the wings are made of the feathers of the bozard The shell Fly 11 The shell Fly is good at Saint Thomas day or midde Iuly the body is made of gréene wooll and lapped about with the herell of the peacocks taile and the winges made of the winges of a bozard The darke or drake Fly 12. The darke drake Fly in August is good the body is made of blacke wooll and lapped about with blacke silke his winges are made of the maile of the black drake with a blacke head Thus are they made vpon the hooke lapt about with some corke like each Fly afore mentioned Here followeth how to couller your lines to angle with NOw to learne how to couler your lines of heare according to the couler of each water and season in this wise first yée shall take the haire of a white horse taile the longest and strongest yée can get the rounder haire the better it is Then yée shall deuide it sixe partes and yée shall couler each part by him selfe as yellow gréene brown tawny russet and the duske couler And to make a good gréene take a quart of small ale and put it into a panne and put thereto halfe a pound of Alum and so put therein your haire and let it boile softly halfe a hower then take forth the haire and let it drie Then take a pottel of water and put it in a panne and put therein too hand full of Mary golds or of wixen and then pressè it with a tile stone and so let it boile softly halfe an hower and when the scum is yellow then put in your haire with halfe a pounde of coperes beaten into fine pouder and so let it boile the space of halfe a mile way then take it downe and let it kéele the space of fiue or sixe howers and so take forth your hair and drie it which wil be the finest gréene for the water also the more of coperas yée doe put in it the gréener it wil be or ye may put in steed of it of verdigrece Another kinde to make another gréene as thus ye shal put your haire vnto a wood fatte of plunket couler and it wil be a light couler and to make it plunket couler then ye shall séeth it in goldes or wixen like as I haue aforesaide vnto this couler ye shall not put coperas nor verdegrece for it will doe better without To make yellow haire FOr to make yellowe haire ye shall séeth it with alum as I haue afore shewed and after that with goldes or wixen without coperas or verdegrece Also another yellow ye shall make thus Take a pottell of small ale and stampe there in thrée handfull of gréene walenut leaues so put them together and lay your haire therein so long till yée haue it so déepe couler as you desire To make a russet FOr to make your haire russet yee shall take a pinte of strong lie and halfe a pound of soote with a little of the iuice of walnut leaues and a quantitie of alum then boile them well altogether in a panne then take it off and when it is colde put therein your haire and so let it lie till it be a darke couler so as ye will haue it To make a browne couler FOr to make your browue couler ye shall take a pound of soote and séeth it in a quart of ale and with so many of walnut leaues as ye shall thinke good and when they shall waxe blacke take it off the fire and put therein your haire and so let it lie still therein till it be as browne as yée will haue it Also another browne couler take of strong ale and soote and temper them altogether and therein put your haire and let it remaine so the space of two daies and two nights and it wil be well To make a tawny haire FOr to make your haire a tawny couler ye shall take a quantity of lime with the like of water and so put them together and put your haire therein and let it rest foure or fiue howers then take it out and put it in tannars ouse for a day and it wil be well Also ye shall kéepe the first part of your haire white stil for your lines to be reserued for the dubbid hooke to fish for the troute and grailing and also to make small lines to angle for the roche and the darce and such Lines fit for each water HEre ye shall know in what water to angle for which season of the yeare your coulered lines will best serue The gréene colered line will serue in all cleere waters from Aprill vnto September The yellow line is good to angle in euery water which is cleare frō September vnto Nouember for it wil be like the wéedes other withered grasse which is in the water The russet line is best to angle withall in winter and serueth best all the winter vnto the end of Aprill as well in riuers as standing pooles The browne coulered line to angle withall serueth for any water that is blacke or of dedish couler be it in riuers or standing waters Anglers and fishers THe tawny coulered line to angle withal serueth best for those waters that are heathy or moorish couler Thus much for your lines and cullers practised according to the couler of waters wishing that all anglers would not angle in vnseasonable times as from midde March to mid May for then is the chiefest spawning time and increase of fishe A great number there is in this realm which gouerns waters that spares no time to kill nor cares for no time to saue but takes at all times which maketh freshe fishe so deare and so scant in riuers and runiung

that is fold thereon so long as ye will haue it of length to lie on the water and each corke to be but foure fingers a sunder or lesse shall suffice The More-coore or bauld Coote kils fish also THe More henne or bauld coote liues likewise on waters and they also eate fish if they can take them To kill or take these I know no other way but with lime or with the gunne or such like to kill them The making of a water lime a verie good and a perfect way YE shall first wash your birdlime in running water that no knots be found therein nor yet motes but pike them out as cleane as ye can in the washing Then take and boyle it in a pot or skillet and in the boyling put in a little rosome with some fresh grease or goose grease and so let it boyle softly a pretie space in storing it stil Then take off the same lime and put it to a weat testorne in water if it come with the lime it is good if not boyle it longer vntill ye sée that proofe Also in stéede of rosom ye may take white turpentine for that is better And this kinde of water lime will holde both in water and frostie wether The Ospray THe Ospray is a bird like a Hawke nie as bigge as the Tarcell of a goshawke he liueth by fish and is a great destroyer of fish for I haue séene him take fish in the middest of a great ponde they say he hath one foote like a Ducke and the other like a Hawke and as he flies nie ouer the water the fish will come vp vnto him Howe to take him I know no other way but to watch where hee prayes to eate his fish for he will flie to some trée there aboutes and there to kill him with the handgunne which I haue séene in Hampshire Thus much for the Ospray The tempering of bird-lime and it will serue also well in water TAke a pound of bird lime cleanse and wash it in running water verie cleare that no knots be left therein Then beate out the water and drie it againe Then put thereto two spoonefuls of sharpe vineger and so much goose grease as will make it subtill to runne and put therto halfe a spoonefull of lampe oyle and a litle Venice Turpentine Then boyle all these together in an earthen leaden panne and sturre it alwayes and let it but bubble and play softly Then take it off the fire and so reserue it and vse it at your pleasure warme it when you will haue the vse thereof Lime made of Misteltoo DYoscorides sayth they do gather the berries in Automne in the full of the Moone for then they are of most force and then they broose them and so let them lie for a space and rotte and then they wash them in running water till they be cleane like other lime and therewith they doe take birdes as with other birde lime made of Holly barkes A pretie way to take a Pye YE shall lime a small thréede a foote long or more and then tie one end about a péece of flesh so bigge as shée may flie away withall and at the other end of the thréed tie a shooe buckle and lay the flesh on a post and let the thréede hang downe and when she flies away with it the thréede with the buckle will wrappe about her and then she will fall so ye may take them FINIS A Booke of Engines and traps to take Polcats Buzardes Rattes Mice and all other kindes of Vermine and beasts whatsoeuer most profitable for all Warriners and such as delight in this kinde of sport and pastime LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe and are to be solde by Edwarde White dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne 1590. A hutch to take Polcats as also other Vermin THis manner of Engine is called of Warriners a hutch and it is made of bordes foure square to be remoued or to stande still with two falling bordes at the endes which two bordes must fall into two rygals on both sides of the endes for flipping 〈◊〉 Also there is two la●hes and strings tide to the falling bordes on the endes to holde them vp crossing vppon two pillers which are made fast on the vpper borde of the hutch with a line made fast on the backe side comming ouer the endes of the saide lathes downe to the bridge on the fore side Which bridge is tyde within to the backe side or borde of the hutch an inch from the bottome borde Some doe make them with another piller in stéede of the backe string but this is as good a way ye may chuse which way ye will haue it A latch trappe for the water Ratte to be made of borde with a hole pinde against the Rattehole in the banke of brookes pooles or riuers THe latch must be set no wider but two inches and a halfe hie so that they must créepe thorow when 〈◊〉 comes in or out it may be set within the water and ab●●● the water where commonly they lie about all day and come out toward night This is called the dead-fall for Polcats or other Vermine THis engine is called a dead fall it is made with a square péece of timber or such like waying about halfe a hundreth poundes or more with a hole boared in the midst of the vpper side thereof and therein a hooked crooke set fast Also there is foure forked stakes which must be set fast in the ground and laying thereon two cudgils a crosse on which cudgils ye shall lay a long staffe or poale to hold vp the dead fall by the crooch vnder which crooch ye shall put a short cudgell with a line made fast thereunto which line reacheth downe to the bridge beneath which bridge ye shall make within fiue or sixe inces broad like those that are made for the foresaide hutch Also on both sides of this fall ye may set it with borde pale or such like either ye may hedge it with close rods and to make it ten inches hie or more The foure spreading corners are made to shewe the lowe hedges that no vermine shall passe so easily by but come thorow the fall and the passage must be made no wider then the fall is broade Some Warreners do make no tay of the bridge behinde but sets it loose against a pinne before the clicket and so it stayes vpon the fall The latch or Foxe trap THis Engine is called a Latch or Foxe trappe it is made with a thicke péece of wood of two inches in the bottome and so made taper wise vpwarde There is also two other square péeces set on the endes of the bottome péece and made with two regals for the latch to rise and fall in as ye may sée by example in turning on a pinne in the lower rigall at the hinder ende Which latch with the clogge must be made with his edge downeward as the other is

doe thus Take a codling hooke well armed with wyer then take a small Roch or Gogin or else a Frogge a liue or a fresh Hearing and put through your armed wyer with your hooke on the end and let your hooke rest in the mouth of your bayte and out at the tayle thereof and downe by the ridge or side of the fresh Hearing and then put your line thereto and drawe it vp and downe the water or poole and if he see it hee will take it in haste let him go with it a while and then strike and holde and so tyre him in the water Seene doe put the hooke in at the checke of the bayte and foorth at the tayle but when ye will lay your lyne then must ye put a plummet of leade vpon your line a yarde from your hooke and a flote in the middest betwéene the leade and your bayte that it sinke not to the bottome for then the yéeles will eat your baite away Ye may lay in your baites without flots and often ye may speede of pykes and if you will sée a good sport in a pond where as there is store of Pykes you shall put in a Goose and put a frogge a liue on a hooke and tye it with a strong pockthreed to the Goose foote a yeard long or more and in short space ye shall see good snatching and tugging betwéene the Pyke and the goose An other maner in taking the Pyke there is ye shall take a liue Frogge put him on your hooke at the necke betwéene the skinne and the bodie on the backe part and put a flote as is aforesaide then cast it in a riuer or pound where ye thinke the Pyke haunteth and ye shall soone take him and the best laying or angling for him is towardes night Also another maner is to take him take the same baite aforesaide and put it into a safetida and then cast it in the water with a long line and a hooke ye shall not fayle of him soone after An other baite for him Take Boares grease a safetida neppe so boile altogether then take a Roch or other small fish and drie it in your bosome and take and annoint him with the foresaide oyntment and then put him on your hooke and cast it into the water and you shall spéede also some doe vse to dragge for the Pyke with a bleke Roch or Gogin in drawing it vp and downeithe water sometimes aboue and sometimes beneath for so he will soonest come if he see it and some anglers do put the hooke in at his gill and out at his mouth and so drawes the bayte as though he did flie from the Pyke which is taken for the better way to make him more eger to take it The Loch and the Millers thumbe THe Loch and the cull or Millers thumbe they are good and wholsome fish they feede at the bottome and lye most part in weedes rootes and holes in bankes and to angle for them ye must lay to the bottome they do seldome byte at an hooke but the red worme is their chiefest bayte that I do knowe for them for their foode is commonly at the bottome in sucking such as lies on the bottome of the water The manner of feeding and preseruing your quicke baites NOw I will tell you how you shall féepe and kéede your quicke baites which is you shal féede and kéepe them al in general but euery maner by himself with such things as they breede in and vppon and so long they be quick and newe so long they are fine and good but when they bee once dead they are then nothing worth out of these be excepted thrée broodes or kindes that is to wéete of hornets humble bées and waspes which ye shall bake them after the bread is drawen out of he ouen and then dippe their heads in blood and let them so dry and also for the magots when they be bred and waxe great with their natural féeding yée shall continue and feede them surthermore with sheepes tallowe and with a cake made of flower and hony which will cause them to be more greater and when yée haue cleansed them in a blanket bagge with sand kéepe it hotte vnder your gowne or other warme thing two howers or three then they wil be best to your purpose and ready for to angle with and for the frog when yee angle with him yee must cutte off his legges by the knées and also the grasse-hopper his legges and winges by the body all other made baites I will here let passe but vse them as yee thinke good Baites to last all the yeare HEre I will speake of certaine baites to last al the yeere The first is made of beane flower and leane fleshe of the hippes of a cony or of a catte with virgin waxe and shéepes tallow so beate them in a morter and then temper them at the fire with a litle clarified hony and so make it vppe in small balles and therewith yée may baite your hooke according to the quantity and this is a good baite for all manner of fishe that vseth the freshe waters Another Take the suet of a shéepe and chéese of each like quantity and bray them together long in a morter then take flowre and temper it therewith and then delay it with hony and so make balles thereof and this is a special baite fo the barbell also Baites for fi●eat fishe THe baites for great fishe yée shall kéepe in minde this rule that is whensouer yée doe take a great fishe yee shall open the maw of him and looke what yee finde therein make that your baite for that time for that is alwaies best and most surest There is many other making of baites but for lacke of knowledge therein I wil here passe them ouer and some not so needefull as necessary as these aforesaide Of twelue kindes of made Flies to angle for the trout in Sommer with other fishe THere hath beene vsed twelue maner of flyes made and sette vnto the hookes to angle withall on the top of the water the which Flies are to angle for the grailing and darce and chiefest for the troute and also for the chub like as now ye shall here me tell and declare each by him selfe the counterfeiting of them First for the dunne Fly 1 The dun Fly in March the body is made of dunne woolle and the winges of the partridge feathers 2 Also there is another dunne Fly made the body of blacke wooll and the winges is made of the blacke drakes feathers and of the feathers vnder the winges of his taile The stone Fly 3 The stone Fly in Aprill the body is made of black wooll made yellow vnder the winges and vnder the tayl and so made with the wings of the drake The ruddy Fly 4 The ruddy Fly in the beginning of May is a good Fly to angle with aloft on the water the body is made of redde wooll lapt about with blacke silke and

make them in length as ye shall sée cause for the bredth of your bordes or plankes which must be somewhat heauie alwayes A Mill to take Mice THis engine or Mill is made of ij thin bords and thicker in the midst then at the ends The one halfe of the bredth is set in ioyned within the other halfe and boared with a percer thorough the midst and there is put thorow a great wyar or a smal pinne of wood as yée may sée and that pinne is put into a thicke bord of four inch bord which borde lyeth on some table or other borde from the ground halfe a yeard or as yée shall thinke good and set some panne or pot with water vnder your mill and baite your mill on both sides of each leafe with some butter mixt with otmele and sugar and set all other things away and so shall ye drowne thréescore or more perhaps in a night as I haue séene done if there be store Ye shall make your mill to turne very easely that the least weight thereon shall turne it Also set your Mill an inch from your square borde that the pinne is in and baite your borde with some otmeale to tice them to the mill Thus may yée soone destroy them if your house bée troubled with them neuer so much The square mouce trappe The mouce trap with a dish a filboll THis engine or square mouce trappe is made of two bordes with a hole boared thorough them both at the lower end and a pinne set set fast in the hole of the neather borde and comes thorow the vpper borde which vpper borde riseth and falleth thereon Then is there a string tide at the sayde pinne with a long bridge and a pinne on the vpper bord afore with a short string and a clicket tide thervnto to stay vp the vpper borde and so it is done This is a slight way and soone made for mice The other trappe is with a dish or bowle tylde vp with a silboll such as they make to fill puddings which is made with a thinne stice of wood or such like with a tayle of thrée inches long and thereon is the baite tyed The filboule his bowght is commonly one inch and more hie to holde vppe the dish that the mouce touch not the dish before she come to the baite Then when she stirs the baite the dish fals ouer the filboll and the filboll within and the mouse also Then ye may set a vessell of water and let the mouse fall therein And thus it is vsed and also quickly made To take the Buzard with three twigs limed THis engine is to take the Buzard in the spring of the yeare as in March and Aprill which is made thus with thrée small roddes growing on the end of some bough or thrée small twigs set on the end of a pretie bigge sticke and of a shastment long Ye must so place them that two twigges must lie alwayes on the ground and the other stand or lie ouer The sticke must haue a hole board in the end as ye may sée and therein to fasten the mouse taile or a thréede with a liue mouse tide vnto it Also the twigs must be finely layde with lyme and in a morning layde on the ground whereas ye shall sée any Buzard nie and as soone as ye are departed if she spie the mouse ye shall sée her come vnto it and so taken which is a verie good way to take them in the spring but at other times not so good Also the Buzard may well be taken in March and Aprill with setting thrée limerods and bayfed in a plaine with the liuer of a conny or such like The Moull trappe TO set this Moull trappe where any Moull hath cast ye shall first place two trestles ouer her casting then tread it downe with your foote softly so long and so broad as your fall is or more Then lay a poale crosse ouer your tresles and there on hang your trappe ouer the trench Then set a short stake with the bridge therein against the midst of your fall as ye may sée by the figure and set your stake so that the bridge end may lie and touch the earth all ouer in the trench crosse For when the Moull doth cast shée wil put vp that end of the bridge which do crosse the trench and the other end will fall on the clicket and so the trappe falles and the long nayles set at both endes of the fall kils her which way soeuer she comes or goes Your fall must be two foote long and foure inches broad and foure inches thicke for the heauier the better it is If it be too light yée may remedie it as ye thinke good Also yée may set your long nayles in a thencher or thinne borde and nayle that to your fall at both endes and let the next nayles on both sides be foure inches from the bridge Thus much for the moull trappe ye may thus kill them in gardens woodes high-wayes or where yee shall thinke good without anie watching of them The following trappe THis engine is called the following trappe for Mice it is made with two square bordes the bottome and the fall borde with edge bordes of an inch hie round about the neather borde and set with two wing bordes of each side one with a crosse lath ouer the middest to tye the string of the clicket Which string comes downe to the bridge plast with a crosse bridge and then is there wreathed corde or haire vnder the lath aboue and in that wreath is put the following staffe which as soone as the lidde doe fall that following staffe holdes it downe and the falling borde is nayled with two leathers as yée may sée to the lower borde and also the bridge is tide vnder vnto the lower bord with a string Thus much for the vnderstanding of the following trappe The griping trappe made all of yrne the lowest barre and the ring or hoope with two clickets and a turning pinne which ring is set fast to the sides of the lowest barre MOre vnto it is a plate round in the middest with fiue holes cut out and a sharpe yrne pinne in the middest which plate hath a spring on both sides vnder the edge of the plate and they stirre not of ioyntes vp and downe as the other doth but standes fast in touching the crosse pinne vnder the plate Here is more with two springs vntylde on both sides in holding together the two hoopes with nayles NOw when the two springes are opened abroade and holde downe here it is to be shewed as hee standeth tyled with the two springes downe flat to the long barre on both sides which springes are made of good stéele and as soone as the clickets which holde them downe vnder the plate when both the outward clickets be stirde The two springes shuts them suddenly together and there is in the two shutting hoopes sharpe pinnes of yrne set one

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