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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Fishing -- Early works to 1800.
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The Ospray.

THe Ospray is a bird like a Hawke, nie as bigge as the Tarcell of a goshawke, he liueth by fish, and is a great destroyer of fish: for I haue séene him take fish in the middest of a great ponde, they say he hath one foote like a Ducke, and the other like a Hawke, and as he flies nie o∣uer the water, the fish will come vp vnto him. Howe to take him I know no other way but to watch where hee prayes to eate his fish, for he will flie to some trée there a∣boutes, and there to kill him with the handgunne, which I haue séene in Hampshire. Thus much for the Ospray.