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.

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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.
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Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.
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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]
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Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07166.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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Now must yee know your hookes, how to angle for euerie kinde of fishe.

I Will tell you with how many sufficient haires yee shall angle for euery kinde of fishe. For the Meno with a line of one haire, for the small or wexing roche, the bleke, the gagin, and the ruffe, with a line of two haires, for the darce and the great roche, with a line of three haire, for the perche, the flounder, and the small breme, with a line of foure haires, for the cheuin chubbe, the breme, the tenche, and the yéele, with a line of sixe haires, for the troute, the grailing, the barbyll, and the great cheuin, with a line of

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nine haires, for the great troute, with twelue haires, for the sawmon, with a line of fiftéene haires, and for the pike, a chalke line, and browne it with your browne couler a∣foresaid, and armed with a wier, as hereafter shalbe séene, when I speake of the pike.

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