The breeding of Creuis.
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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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- 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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THe fresh water Creuis, commonly liues and lyes in
bankes and holes in riuers and brookes, and they are a
holesome fish for all sickne and weake persons. They will
east their spawne in the spring about the moneth of May,
and will shed it on stones, & wéedes in the bottome, where∣of
most is eaten vp with yéeles and water rats, as some do
suppose. Therefore it were not vnméete to make fagots
of hole strawe to saue the spawne as aforesaide. Also they
will soone be driuen with flouds downe the streame, in few
yeares they will greatly increase, if they be not taken with
mens handes, and kild with Rats for they will lie in holes
and vnder stones, and wéedes, and so are soone taken: for
they cannot flie fast away, If they be taken in May, it
will be a great spoyle of their increase, for commonly then
they doe shed their spawne. The Water rat is also a great
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deuourer of them lying in holes: and whereas many rats are, they cannot lightly prosper or increase there. Thus much for the fresh water Creauis. Yée may store any brooke or riuer with the Creuis, but especially he loues the sandie and grauely running waters.