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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The Cormarant.

THe Cormarant is also a great destroyer of fish, hee v∣seth the fresh waters, and will diue vnder the water, and will take and eate fish of thrée & foure yeares growth. How to take or destroy them I know not well, otherwise then to destroy their nests in bréeding time, whereas they

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bréede in Ilands, and rockes by the sea: some may be de∣stroyed in riuers and pooles, with crossebow, or handgun, other wayes I haue not knowen or heard of, not with lime lines except it be in the night, and then they will pike them soone cleane againe.

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