The double trappe to take Rattes or Mice.
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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.
- 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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- 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 May 5, 2024.
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THis Engine or trap, it is almost made with a square
borde in the bottome, and also aboue, and aqout fiue
inches in height with a thicke borde in the middest, as yée
may sée pointed with fiue nayles, and nayled fast to the
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vpper and neather borde, in parting the trappes. There is also two falles naylde with leathers on the vpper borde, which is holde vp and tilde with a string, which string hath a clicket or wedge, and is stayde on a short péece of woode, and so tilde with hooked wiar, which wiar goeth thorowe a bigge hole, and stayes on the vpper bord by a crosse wiar, and on the lower end of the crooked wiar the baite is put on within the trappe, at the further ende of the trappe: and there against ye may sée certaine wiars set from the vpper borde to the neather borde, to tice the Rats there to séeke to goe out. Which is thought yearely they destroy thorow England fortie quarters of corne.