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 Dobchicke.
THe Dobchicke is likewise a water fowle, and they
will be alwayes commonly on riuers and pooles, and
they are nigh as great as the Teales, and are of cullour
blacke, and they will commonly diue vnder the water to
take young fish, as I haue séene in riuers & brookes. Howe
for to take them, the fisher men some doe vse to lay on the
water long lines of small thréede knit full of little corkes, a
handfull a sunder on the line, and cut foure square like bigge
dice, and so limed and fold on aracle, as I shall shewe here∣after:
and where they sée them haunt, they will spread the
saide line afore them on the water, and then with their
boats, driue them to the sayd line, and so many are taken.
Thus much for taking the Dobchickes.
[illustration]
This ra••le, turnes round of the middle staffe, and as ye
sée the thréede limed with small corkes, that is fold thereon,
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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.
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