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.
Author
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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Here is how to saue and preserue fish.

FOr so much as I haue afore shewed certaine waies and practises how to take fish in riuers, pooles, and stand∣ing

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waters. I will here declare certaine waies how for to maintaine fish, and the chiefest waies to saue and preserue them in riuers, pooles, and standing waters, against such deuourers and rauerers as hath and will destroy them, as Herne, the Dobchicke, the Coote, the Cormorant, the Sea-pie, the Kings fisher and such like: as also the Otter, who is a common destroter of pondes and standing waters, and a great deuourer of and spoyler of riuers, brookes, and running waters, which shall be declared in their places.

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