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
riuers and running waters are at more libertie then those which are closed in pondes and pits for those in running waters the water bringeth to them alwaies some what to féede on and there also the small fish doe nourish the great but the fish inclosed can get no such thing Therefore it shal be good to cast vnto them of small fish and of guts and garbage of fish and of beasts and figges cut small and nut curnels broosed or broosed wheate wormes graines of bruinges white bread all sortes of salt fishes cut and hackt in small péeces and such like If your fish nourish and fat not with these ye must féede them with the frettes or gubbins of market fish of the fishmongers if yet they be leane it shewes plaine they were taken from the seas which fish are raueners or they haue come from riuers nigh the seas but the fish in pondes are restraint from those liberties Therefore continually they must be fedde Of the taking of fish diuerse wayes THere is diuerse maner of wayes in taking fish in some places according to the Countrie and the nature of great waters is one and of riuers and pooles is an other where they inhabite so likewise is the diuersitie of the fish Also in fishing some manner of fishing is in the Seas an other manner is in swéete waters an other maner for great fish an other maner for yéeles other wayes for Roches and small fish an other way for the Carpe and such like Now séeing there is so many diuersities in taking fish it willl be hard to expresse and long to write Wherefore here I leaue that knowledge to those that vse to fish and sell in markets In speaking here in generall of the commodities for the father and his famelie in taking of fish for the common wealth whereof the principall maner is with nets weiles lines and hookes Thus I haue shewed of replenishing your pondes to haue plentie of fish and clensing your pondes from wéedes and a care for your emtie pondes and how to maintaine your pits and stues with fish Also to nourish the fish in your standing waters and declaring of diuers waies in taking of fish Thus much taken of Stephanus in French Pour Amorcer or gather Tortues TAke Salarmoniacke eight drams of Scalion Onions one dram the fat of veale ten drams So beate them together and being made in pellets like beanes cast them by their haunt to the Tortues and they will come themselues to the smell thereof and so ye may take them To make it drie TAke the lées of strong wine mixt with oyle and put it in a place where ye know it will drie let it so remaine till it waxe blacke and they will come to the place where the oile shall be put and so ye may take them Ye may take also Salarmoniack thirtéene drams and the butter of goates milke eight drams beate altogether and make small soft pellets thereof and therewith rubbe what graine or small lynséede not broken but dride and they will féede there all about and will not depart and straite way ye may so take them To take Loches or small fish TAke the branne of wheate meale two pound of lenten pease halfe a pound mixe them together and beate them with a sufficient quantitie of brine and put thereto halfe a pound of sessame Then shall ye part it in péeces and throw them here and there for as soone as ye haue thrown it in the water all the small fish will come vnto it and remaine in one place although they be 300. paces off Also ye may take the bloud of an Oxe Goate Shéepe or of a Hogge with the dung that is in the small guts of them Also of time peniryall léekes sauerie margerum garlick with the lées of good wine of each in like with the grease or marow of the saide beastes so much as ye séeme good beate them a part and then mixe them a like together and so make small pellets thereof and cast it where ye will haue the fish to come an houre before ye cast in your lines or else take the bloud of a blacke Goate the lées of good wine of barley meale all in like portion beate them all together with the lites of a Goate and then cut them in small péeces and make pellets thereof and so vse them as aboue sayde Another way TAke halfe a pound of garlick of burnt sessame as much of pouliot of organie of time great margerum of sauerie of wild stauisacre of ech two and thirtie drams of barley meale one pound of wheate as much and of the barke of a Frankinsence trée thirtéen drams worke all together with branne and cast it to the fish and they will assemble thereabout To take Perch THe Perch is not so easily taken with hooke nets or bownet but rather with proper baites made and vsed in a troubled water therefore ye must make baites with the liuer of a Goate and the snaile or take the yellow butter flie which flyeth of Goates whay called fromage de cheureau of each foure drams opopauicis two drams hogges bloud foure drams galbony foure drams beate all well together and sprincle it all ouer with pure wine and make thereof small pellets or as ye make perfumes and drie them in the shade To take the Samon as well in the Riuer as in the Sea TAke eight drams of Cockes stones and the curnels of pine apple trée burnt sixtéene drams beate all together a like till it be in maner of a meale Another Take the séedes of wilde Rue eight drams the fat of a veale eyght drams of Sessame thirtéene drams beate all together and make small loaues thereof and vse them as the other before mentioned Thus much more taken from Stephanus in French To take much fish by a light in the night YE shall distill in a lembeck of glasse a quantitie of glowormes that shineth in the night with a soft fire and put the distilled water into a thin viall of glasse and thereunto put foure ounces of quicksiluer that must be purged or past thorough leather or Kidde skinne Then stoppe the glasse that no water enter and tie it in the midst of your bow net for breaking and so cast it in the water and the fish will soone come vnto the light and couet to enter into the net and so ye shall take many And some doth suppose if ye doe but take a certaine of those glo-wormes and put them in a thinne viole or glasse and then stoppe it close and tie it in the net they will shine as well and giue as much light But then I doubt they will not long be aliue without meate except ye put herbes vnto them in the day and let them féede and vse them in the night as before So yée may reserue them for your purpose I thinke a long time To take Yeeles in the winter in haye or strawe bottles YE shall make long fagots of hay wrapt about
willow boughes which ye shall put in the midst of your bottle or faggot of hay and then sinke it in the déepe by the banke and so let it lie two or thrée dayes and tie a wythe or rope thereunto that ye may soone plucke it vp on land or boate and so ye shall take yéeles therein good store in a colde weather very good And if ye baite or lay in your fagotte guttes or garbedge of a beast yee shall be the more certaine to haue them in a small time How to breede and increase yeeles in riuers pondes and standing waters THe common saying among fisher men is if ye wil haue in your pits and pondes being of a swéete water great plentie of Yéeles in few yeares ye shall digge two round or square turfes or so many as ye will haue and cut them on a swéete ground a short grasse a foote or more round or square turfes whereon the dewe shewes most in the morning before the sunne doe rise Then take them vp and clappe the gréene sides together one vpon another and pin them fast together with prickes of wood Then carrie and lay them softly in what pit or pond ye list and ye shall sée experience This is to be done in the moneth of May by the dew then on the ground and at no other time else of the yeare to be good The Gase for to catch Menowes THis Gase is a round net of small mesh with a hoope of yeirne or great wier halfe an intch about and to let sinke in a ditch or brooke which is not déepe and so holde it a while by thrée strings like a ballans with a loope in the toppe and therein to put through a staffe or poale and yée shall haue within a while so many Menowes which will come and gase at it as will couer it ye must hang a small plommet in the middest to make it sinke And also the roundes must be flat oyster shelles tyde to and the squares must be scarlet or red cloth sowed on your hoope and net may be thrée quarters and a halfe of a yeard broad from side to side Thus much for the Gase How to bobbe for yeeles THere is also a taking of yéeles with great wormes drawen through on a long thréede one by an other and then feulded vp thrée fingers déepe and then tyde aboue all together and a bigge string tide thereunto and fastened bnto a short poale which ye shall holde in your hand This is vsed to bobbe at the comming of a floud water and at the ebbing water of any water that ebbes and flowes Also it is vsed after a great raine in brookes and running waters ye must let your bobbe touch the bottome and so vp with it softly againe and so vse it still and ye shall féele when any yée le doe bite then pluck it vp not very fast for then he will forsake the worme he hath hold of and as soone as he féeles the ayre he will léese his holde therefore yée must haue a vessell on the water alwaies readie that hée may fall therein Thus much for the bobbing for yéeles The yee le speare to take yeeles The Otter Speare THe Yée le speare is made with fiue thinne barres cut in the sides with téeth to holde that yée le that is within them and made with thicker and rounder plates aboue toward the socket which socket must be made strong and therein put your poale or staffe which they vse in mudde riuers and brookes to take a dish of yéeles at pleasure but it is euill to vse the yée le speare whereas there is Teech or Carpe for they will commonly lie in the mudde when the water is beaten or troubled and thereby they may soone be striken and die thereof The Otter speare is vsed when a man hunteth the Otter in riuers or brookes when as a man shall chance to sée him vent aboue the water then to throw the speare at him which speare hath a line tide at the ende and a small boxe fastened at the end of the line that when yee haue stricken him ye shall the sooner perceiue him where he diueth in the riuer Or if ye chaunce to finde him lying out of the water there to strike him and let him go into the water and so kill him To breede Millars-thumbes and Loches in shallow brookes or riuers THe fishes called Loches and the other called Millars-thumbes or Culles they alwayes féede in the bottome of brookes and riuers They are fish holesome to be eaten of féeble persons hauing an ague or other sicknesse These fish delight to be in sandie grauell in riuers and brookes and they are very easie to be taken with small trauell in remouing the stones where they lie vnder for they cannot swim fast away Therefore in certaine shallow riuers brookes they do vse to bréede and saue them ye may in laying round heapes of pebble stones or flint in shallow places of the saide riuers and brookes halfe a foote déepe of water or lesse Like as there is a shallow riuer running from Bareamstede to Chestum and so to Chaue also by Croyden and other places wherein they might bréede of the saide fish great store if they were so giuen The like riuer runnes in Hampeshiere by sides Altum increasing by diuerse springes and runnes shallow in many placed and by a certaine parish there called the Parson thereof hath tolde me he hath had so many of the saide Culles and Loches to his tithe wéekely that they haue founde him sufficient to eate Fridayes and Saterdayes whereof he was called the Parson of Culles This order of stones are laide hollow in shallow places lesse then halfe a foote déepe of water Which fish among the saide heapes of stones doth there lie safe and so bréedes and there they are saued from the water Rats and all other foules which otherwise would still deuour them These store of fish men might haue in diuerse such like riuers in this Realm if they would take the like paine to lay such heapes of stones as is aboue set downe which sheweth the maner of laying them round in the bottome the circuit of two yeardes about or as yée shall sée cause Thus much I thought good to shew for the maintenance and bréeding of Culles and Loches Also it is euident in other Countries the great care they haue in preseruing their fish especially in the spring as in France no fisher men or other shall lay any engins in riuers or brookes in the night as flewes stalles buckes kéepes weles and such like from mid March to mid May for then the fish doeth shed their spawne among wéedes and bushes nor shall not beate the waters or brookes with any plonging poales nor yet the fisher men to fish at no time with any net vnder foure inches mash because they shall not kill the small fish before they are well growen vppon paine of forfaite and losse of all such engins
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 laâ—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 abâ—â—â— 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
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 â— 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 Aconiâ—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 packthâ—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