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A34843	The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.	Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1656-1692. Hunter, a discourse in horsemanship.	1686 (1686)	Wing C6705; ESTC R33687	308,510	564

dog with this portion Take an ounce and a half of Cassia fistularis well cleansed two drams and a half of Stavesacre pulverized and the like quantity of Scammony prepared in white-wine-White-wine-vinegar and four ounces of Oyl-olive temper these and warm them over the Fire and give it your dog In the morning put him into this bath fasting as followeth Put into six pails full of water ten handfuls of Mugwort of Rosemary of red-Sage of the roots or leaves of Marsh-mallows of the roots or leaves of Wall-wort of the roots or stalks of Fennel of the leaves or stalks of Elecampane Baulm and Rue Sorrel Bugloss and Mellilot let these boil together in two thirds of water and the other Wine until one third be consumed the bath being no hotter than your dog can endure it bathe him therein for the space of an hour then taking him out put him in some warm place for sear of catching cold Do this four or five times in the same bath and it will cure Of the Sleeping Madness The fourth Madness is called the Sleeping Madness and is caused by some little Worms breeding in the mouth of the Stomack from corrupt Humours the vapours and sumes whereof ascending into the head make the dog sleep continually and frequently he dieth sleeping For the cure you must take five ounces of the juice of Wormwood with two ounces of the powder of Harts-horn burned and two drams of Agarick mingle these together and if they be too thick thin them with White-wine and give it your dog to drink Of the Rhcumatick or Slavering Madness This Madness is called so because when a dog hath got it his head swelleth his eyes are as yellow as a Kite's-foot and he commonly slavereth at the mouth The Cure is thus Take six ounces of the juice of Fennel-roots and the like quantity of the juice of Misseltoe four ounces of the juice of lvy four ounces of the powder of the roots of Polypodie boil these in White-wine and give it your dog to drink as hot as he can suffer it Here note that when a dog hath any of these kinds of Madnesses he will have no desire to eat fasting frequently eight or nine days and so starving to death Nay if they are troubled with any distemper they will refuse their meat nay the daintiest bit you can give them until they have eaten grass and have cleared their stomack of what did offend it and then they will eat Concerning the Madness of Dogs and their Venomous Bitings I think no reasonable man ought to question why the teeth of a mad dog should do more harm than those of a sound one because in rage and anger the teeth of every beast and creature receive venome and poison from the head whereby when they bite at that time they do much more harm Against the simple biting of a dog take the urine of a dog which is sufficient since there is but little venome in those wounds To lay the hair of the same dog thereon though so much talkt on I look upon as a meer foppery Or being bit by a dog take vinegar and with your hand rub the wound very well then pour into it vinegar mixed with water or Nitre then wet a spunge in the same liquids and so let it remain bound up three days then take Pellitory of the wall mingled and beaten with Salt or any other plaister for green wounds Divers are the cures and remedies for biting of mad dogs which I omit in this place as belonging not to my subject but to Physick A Remedy against the common Mange This distemper befalls a dog frequently for want of fresh water to drink when he desires it and sometimes by foul kennelling and sometimes by foundering and melting his greace You may cure it in this manner Take two handfuls of wild Cresses two handfuls of Elecampane and as much of the leaves and roots of Roerb and Sorrel and two pound of the roots of Frodels make them all boil well in lye and vinegar having strained the decoction put therein two pound of gray soap and when it is melted therein then rub your degs with it four or five days together and it will cure them A brief Discourse of the Cure of Maladies belonging to Spaniels with other accidents happening HOw necessary a thing a Spaniel is to Faulconry and for those that delight in that noble recreation keeping Hawks for their pastime and pleasure I think no body need question as well to spring and retrive a fowl being flown to the mark as also divers other ways to help and assist Faulcons and Goshawks Now since they are subject to many diseases and casualties I shall endeavour to propound a suitable cure for them and first I shall begin with the Mange as the capital enemy to the quiet and beauty of a brave Spaniel wherewith poor creatures they are often grievously tormented and as frequently infect others For the cure of this distemper take a pound of Barrow-flick common Oil three ounces Brimstone well pulverized foar ounces Salt well beaten to powder Ashes well sifted and searced of each two ounces boil all these in a kettle or earthen-pot and when they are all well incorporated together anoint your Spaniel with this thrice every other day either against the Sun or Fire having so done wash him all over with good strong Lye and this will kill the Mange Remember you shift his kennel and litter often If the Spaniel lose its Hair as it often happens then bathe your Spaniel in the water of Lupines or Hops and anoint him with stale Barrows-flick This ointment besides the cure maketh his skin look slick and beautiful and kills the fleas the dogs disquieters and enemies to his ease If this be not strong enough to destroy this malady then take two quarts of strong vinegar common oil six ounces brimstone three ounces soot six ounces brayd salt and searced two handfuls boil all these together in the vineger and anoint your dog as aforesaid This receipt must not be administred in cold weather for it may hazard his life in so doing If a Spaniel be not much troubled with the Mange then it is easie to cure him thus Make bread with wheaten-bran with the roots leaves and fruit of Agrimony beating them well in a mortar and making it into a paste or dough bake it in an oven and so made give thereof to your Spaniel giving him no other bread for some time letting him eat as long as he will Cure of the Formica In the summer-time there is a scurvy malady which very much afflicts a Spaniel's ears and is accasioned by flies and their own scratching with their feet We term it a Mange the Italians Formica and the French Fourmier For the cure take Gum-dragaganth four ounces infused in the strongest Vinegar may be gotten for the space of eight days and afterwards bruised on a marble-stone as painters do their colours adding unto it Roch-allum and Galls

committed in the Forest by grubbing up the Woods Coverts and Thickets and making them plain as Arable Land or the like Minoverie is a Trespass or Offence committed by some Engine set up in the Forest to catch Deer or the like Tritis is a freedom that one hath from holding a Grey-hound in ones hand when the Lord of the Forest is hunting there or to be amerced for his default Protoforestarius was a great Officer heretofore in Windsor Forest. Stablestand is when one is found standing in the Forest with his Bow ready bent to shoot at any Deer or with his Grey-hound in a Lease ready to slip Swainmote or Swannimote is a Court appointed to be held thrice in a year within a Forest the first 15 days before Michaelmas the second about Martinmas and the third 15 days before St. John Baptist Chiminage is taken by Foresters in fee throughout their Bailiwick for Bushes Timber c. and signifies the same with Toll Afforest is to turn Land into Forest. Disafforest is to turn Land from being Forest to other uses Let what hath been said be sufficient for an Introduction and let us conclude it with a perswasion to all generous Souls not to slight this noble and worthy Exercise wherein is contained so much health and pleasure for the besotting Sensualities and wicked Debaucheries of a City in which the course of Nature seems to be inverted Day turn'd into Night and Night into Day where there is little other Recreation but what Women Wine and a Bawdy Play can afford them whereby for want of Labour and Exercise Mens Bodies contain as many Diseases as are in a sickly Hospital Of DOGS in general AS there is no Country in the World wherein there is not plenty of Dogs so no Animal can boast of greater variety both in shape and kind Some Dogs are very great as the Wolf-dog which is shaped like a Grey-hound but by much taller longer and thicker some are for the Buck others for the Boar Bear and Bull some for the Hare Coney and Hedge-hog some are both for Water and Land and they are called Spaniels other are called Lurchers Tumblers Brachers Beagles c. As for Shepherds Dogs foisting Curs and such whom some fond Ladies make their daily nay nightly Companions too I shall pass over being neither worthy to be inserted in this Subject nor agreeable thereunto wherefore I shall onely treat of such whose natures do incline them to Game for mans Pastime and Recreation In the first place let us consider the Nature of Dogs in general wherein they agree and their common properties of Nature such as are not destroyed in the distinction of kinds but remain like infallible Truths and invariable in every kind and Country through the Universe Dogs as it is to be observed are generally rough and their Hair indifferently long which in Winter they lose every year is a signe of a good constitution but if it grow over-long the Mange will follow The outward proportion of the Head altereth as the kind altereth having no commissure or seam in the Skull being a continued bone without separation The best Dogs in Pliny's Opinion have flat Nostrils yet round solid and blunt Their Teeth are like Saws which they change in the fourth month of their age and by them is their age discerned for while they are white and sharp it discovers the youth of a Dog but when they grow blackish or dusky broken and torn they demonstrate the elder age The Breast of a Dog is narrow so is his Ventricle for which cause he is always in pain in the discharging his Excrements After they have run a Course they relieve themselves by tumbling and rowling to and fro When they lie down they turn round in a circle two or three times together which they do for no other cause but that they may the more commodiously lie round and from the Wind. In their sleep they often dream as may appear by their barking Here observe that they who love to keep Dogs must have a special care that they let them not sleep too much especially after their Meat when they are young for as they are very hot so in their sleep doth their heat draw much pain into their Stomack and Ventricle The time of their Copulation is for the most part at a year old yet the Females will lust after it sooner but they should be restrained from it because it debilitates their Body and dulls their Generofity After the expiration of a year they may be permitted to copulate it matters not whether in Winter or Summer but it is best in the beginning of the Spring but with this caution that Whelps of a Litter or of one and the same Bitch be never suffered to couple for Nature delights in variety In antient time for the more ennobling of their race of Dogs they would not permit them to ingender till the Male was four year old and the Female three for by that means the Whelps would prove more strong and lively By Hunting Labour and Travel the Males are made more fit for Generation and they prove best which have their Siers of equal age When they grow proud give them Leaven mingled with Milk and Salt and they will not stray and ramble abroad It is not good to preserve the first or second Litter but the third and after they have littered it is good to give the Bitch Whey and Barley-bread for that will comfort her and increase her Milk or take the Bones of broken Meat and seeth them in Goats-Milk which nutriment will strengthen very much both Dam and Whelps There is no great regard to be had as to the Food of a Dog for he will eat any thing but the Flesh of his own kinde for that cannot be so dressed by the art of Man but they find it out by their Nose and avoid it It is good to let the Whelps suck two Months before they be weaned and that of their own Dam. Put Cummin now and then in their bread it will cure or prevent Wind in their bellies and if Oyl be mingled with that Water they lap they will prove more able and swift to run If he refuse and loath his Meat give him a little hot Bread or dip brown Bread in Vinegar and sqeeze the liquor thereof into his Nose and it will ease him There is some difficulty to chuse a Whelp under the Dam that will prove the best of the Litter Some observe that which seeth last and take that for the best others remove the Whelps from the Kennel and lay them several and apart one from the other then watch they which of them the Bitch first taketh and carrieth into her Kennel again and that they take for the best or else that which vomiteth last of all Some again give for a certain rule to know the best that the same which weigheth least while it sucketh will prove the best according to the Verses of Nemesian

Distemper and few Hawks escape which are afflicted therewith It happens when the Lungs are as it were so baked by excessive heat that the Hawk cannot draw her breath and when drawn cannot well emit it again You may judge of the beginning of this Distemper by the Hawk's labouring much in the Pannel moving her Train often up and down at each motion of her Pannel and she cannot many times mewt or slise or if she do she drops it fast by her It is known likewise by your Hawk's frequent opening her Clap and Beak The best Remedy is to scour your Hawk with good Oyl-Olive well washed in several Waters till it become clear and white which you must do after this manner Take an earthen Pot with a small hole in the bottom thereof which you must stop with your Finger then pour therein your Oyl with a quantity of Water and coil these together with a Spoon till the Water grow darkish after which remove your Finger and the Water will run out but the Oyl remain behind floating on the top thus do seven or eight times till you have throughly purified the Oyl Then take a Sheep's Gut above an Inch long for a Faulcon and Goshawk but of less length for lesser Hawks and fill it with this Oyl and fasten it with Thread at both ends Your Hawk having first cast convey this Gut into her Throat holding her on the Fist till she make a Mewt an hour after she hath done mewting feed her with a Calf's Heart or a Pullet's Leg giving her every third or fourth day a Cotton casting with Cubebs and Cloves I shall onely adde one Receipt more for the Pantas or Asthma and that is the Oyl of sweet Almonds poured into a washt Chicken 's Gut and given the Hawk which is of great efficacy in the cure of this Disease Of Worms There are a sort of Worms an Inch long which frequently afflict Hawks proceeding from gross and viscous Humours in the Bowels occasioned through want of natural heat and ill digestion You may know when she is troubled with them by her casting her Gorge her stinking Breath her trembling and writhing her Train her croaking in the night her offering with her Beak at her Breast or Pannel and by her Mewt being small and unclean You may cure her of them with a Scowring of washt Aloes Hepatick Mustard-seed and Agarick of each an equal quantity or the powder of Harts-horn dried or lastly a Scowring of white Dittander Aloes Hepatick washt four or five times Cubebs and a little Saffron wrapt in some flesh to cause her to take it the better Of the Filanders There are several sorts of Filanders but I shall speak but of one sticking to the Reins They are Worms as small as a Thread and about an Inch long and lie wrapt up in a thin Skin or Net near the Reins of a Hawk apart from either Gut or Gorge You shall know when your Hawk is troubled with them by her poverty by ruffling her Train by straining the Fist or Pearch with her Pounces and lastly by croaking in the night when the Filanders prick her You must remedy this Malady betimes before these Worms have enlarged themselves from their proper station roving elsewhere to your Hawk's ruine and destruction You must not kill them as other Worms for fear of Impostumes from their corruption being incapable to pass away with the Hawk's Mewt but onely stupifie them that they may be offensive but seldom and that is done thus Take a head of Garlick taking away the outmost rinde then with a Bodkin heated in the fire make holes in some Cloves then steep them in Oyl three days and after this give her one of the Cloves down her Throat and for forty days after she will not be troubled with the Filanders Wherefore a Faulconer will shew himself prudent if seeing his Hawk low and poor he give her once a month a Clove of this Garlick for prevention of the Filanders Another approved Medicine for Filanders or Worms in Hawks Take half a dozen Cloves of Garlick boil them in Milk until they are very tender then take them out and dry the Milk out of them then put them into a spoonful of the best Oyl of Olives you can get and when she hath cast in the morning give these to your Hawk feed her not in two hours after and be sure it be warm meat and not much and keep her warm that day for fear of taking cold give her the Oyl with the Garlick they must steep all night Of Hawks Lice These Lice do most infest the Head the Ply of a Hawk's Wings and her Train In the winter you may kill them thus Take two drams of Pepper beaten to powder and mingle it with warm Water and with this Lotion wash the places infested with these Lice or Mites then set your Hawk on a Pearch with her Back and Train against the Sun then hold in your hand a small Stick about a handful long with a piece of soft Wax at the end of it and with that whilst the Hawk is weathering her self take away those Vermin crawling upon the Feathers You may do well to adde to the Pepper and Water some Staves-acre In the Summer-time you may kill the Lice with Auripigmentum beaten to powder and strowed on the places where they lie A safe and easie way to kill Lice in Hawks Mail your Hawk in a piece of Cotton if not in some Woollen-Cloath and put between the Head and her Hood a little Wooll or Cotton then take a Pipe of Tobacco and putting the little end in at the Tream blow the Smoak and what Lice escape killing will creep into the Cloath This is a certain way How to keep and maintain all manner of Hawks in health good plight and liking In the first place never give them a great Gorge especially of gross meats as Beef Pork and such as are hard to be endewed and put over Secondly never feed them with the flesh of any Beast that hath lately gone to Rut for that will insensibly destroy them Thirdly if you are constrained to give your Hawk gross food let it be well soaked first in clean Water and afterwards sufficiently wrung in Summer with cold Water in Winter with luke-warm Water Ever observe to reward your Hawks with some good live meat or else they will be brought too low however the serving them with washt meats is the way to keep them in health I shall conclude how to keep Hawks in perfect health with this most excellent Receipt Take Germander Pelamountain Basil Grummel-seed and Broom-flowers of each half an ounce Hyssop Sassifras Polypodium and Horse-mints of each a quarter of an ounce and the like of Nutmegs Cubebs Borage Mummy Mugwort Sage and the four kinds of Mirobolans of each half an ounce of Aloes Succotrine the fifth part of an ounce and of Saffron one whole ounce All these you must pulverize and every eighth or twelfth day give

cold When your Lime is cold take your Rods and warm them a little over the fire then take your Lime and wind it about the tops of your Rods then draw your Rods a sunder one from the other and close them again continually plying and working them together till by smearing one upon another you have equally bestowed on each Rod a sufficient proportion of Lime If you lime any Strings do it when the Lime is very hot and at the thinnest besmearing the Strings on all sides by folding them together and unfolding them again If you lime Straws it must be done likewise when the Lime is very hot doing a great quantity together as many as you can well grasp in your hand tossing and working them before the fire till they are all besmear'd every Straw having his due proportion of Lime having so done put them up in cases of Leather till you have occasion to use them Now to prevent the freezing of your Lime either as it is on Twigs Bushes or Straws you must adde a quarter as much of the Oyl called Petroleum as of your Capons-grease mix them well together and then work it on your Rods c. and so it will ever keep supple tough and gentle and will not be prejudiced should it freeze never so hard The best and most Experienced way of making Water Bird-lime BUy what quantity you think fit of the strongest Bird-lime you can procure and wash it as long in a clear Spring-water till you find it very pliable and the hardness thereof removed then beat out the water extraordinary well till you cannot perceive a drop to appear then dry it well after this put it into a Pot made of Earth and mingle therewith Capons-grease unsalted so much as will make it run then adde thereto two spoonfuls of strong Vinegar a spoonful of the best Sallet-Oyl and a small quantity of Venice-Turpentine This is the allowance of these Ingredients which must be added to every pound of strong Bird-lime as aforesaid Having thus mingled them boil them all gently together over a small fire stirring it continually then take it from the fire and let it cool When at any time you have occasion to use it warm it and then anoint your Twigs or Straws or any other small things and no Water will take away the strength thereof This sort of Bird-lime is the best especially for Snipes and Felfares In what manner a man may take Snipes with this Bird-lime TAke what number you shall think most expedient for your purpose of Birch-twigs and lime fifty or sixty of them very well together After this go and seek out those places where Snipes do usually frequent which you may know by their Dung In very hard frosty or snowy Weather where the Water lies open they will lie very thick Having observed the place where they most feed set two hundred of your Twigs more or less as you please at a yard distance one from the other and let them stand sloaping some one way and some another then retire a convenient distance from the place and you shall find there shall not one Snipe in ten miss your Twigs by reason they spread their Wings and fetch a round close to the ground before they light When you see any taken stir not at first for he will feed with the Twigs under his Wings and as others come over the place he will be a means to entice them down to him When you see the Coast clear and but few that are not taken you may then take up your Birds fastning one or two of them that the other flying over may light at the same place If there be any other open place near to that where your Twigs are planted you must beat them up The reason why they delight to haunt open places and where Springs do gently run is because they cannot feed by reason of their Bills in places that are hard and stony and about these Plashes in snowy Weather they very much resort The manner of taking Felfares by Water-Bird-lime ABout Michaelmas or when the cold Weather begins to come in take your Gun and kill some Felfares then take a couple of them or one may serve and fasten them to the top of a Tree in such manner that they may seem to be alive Having so done prepare two or three hundred Twigs take a great Birchen-bough and therein place your Twigs having first cut off all the small Twigs then set a Felfare upon the top of the bough making of him fast and let this bough be planted where the Felfares do resort in a Morning to feed for they keep a constant place to feed in till there is no more food left By this means others flying but neer will quickly espie the top-bird and fall in whole flocks to him I have seen at one fall three dozen taken How to take Pigeons with Lime-twigs PIgeons are great devourers and destroyers of Corn wherefore when you find any ground much frequented by them get a couple of Pigeons either dead or alive if dead put them in such a stiff posture as if they were living and feeding then at Sun-rising take a quantity of Twigs as many as you think fit let them be small but I judge Wheaten-straws are better for this purpose and lay them up and down where your Pigeons are placed and you shall find such sport at every fall that is made that you may quickly be rid of them without offending the Statute If there come good flights you may easily take four or five dozen of them in a morning How to take Mag-pies Crows and Gleads with Lime-twigs WHen you have found any Carrion on which Crows Pies Kites c. are preying upon over night set your Lime-twigs every where about the Carrion but let them be small and not set too thick if otherwise being subtile Birds they will suspect some danger or mischief designed against them When you perceive one to be fast advance not to him presently for most commonly when they are surely caught they are not sensible thereof You may take them another way and that is by joyning to a Packthread several Nooses of Hair up and down the Packthread and peg it down about a yard from the Carrion for many times when they have gotten a piece of Flesh they will be apt to run away to feed by themselves and if your Nooses be thick it is two to one but some of the Nooses catch him by the Legs How to take Rooks when they pull up the Corn by the Roots TAke some thick Brown-paper and divide a sheet into eight parts and make them up like Sugar-loaves then lime the inside of the Paper a very little let them be limed three or four days before you set them then put some Corn in them and lay threescore or more of them up and down the ground lay them as near as you can under some clod of Earth and early in the Morning before they