The whippe or spring trappe.
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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.
- 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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THis Engine, is called the whip, or spring, it is set thus:
there is a string tyde vnto the end of some poale set fast
in the ground, or to some trée: vnto the said string is made
fast a small short sticke, with a nicke in the lower end ther∣of,
made thinne on the vpper side: then the poale is bowed
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downe with it, vnto an other sticke set fast in the grounde with a nicke also, and thinne edge vnder. Then shall yée ioyne both the nickes together, as ye may sée by example, as tickle as ye can. Then open the end of your string, set it in some muse, or where ye thinke good. And when anie Foxe or other thing doe plucke the saide vpper string a side, then the nicke slippes by, and the poale starts and so holdes him vp, as ye may easely sée by example. Thus much for the spring trappe. There is yearely kilde with Foxes in this Realme as many do iudge, of lambes tenne thousand, of poultrie twentie thousand, of Rabbets and Conies nie fortie thousand couple: besides young Faunes in many Parkes and Forests.