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.

The Iay trappe to set about corne fields, or orchards.

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THis Engine is called a Iay trappe: it is made with a poale of seuen or eight inches abount, and seuen or eight foote long or hie, set fast in the ground about your wheat, or other fruite. There is made in the saide poale two holes, one beneath and the other aboue: in the nea∣ther most hole, there is a spring wand set fast therein, and bowed vnto the hole aboue, which hole ye shall put tho∣rowe a string, tide fast to the ende of the spring wand, with a knot thereon, to stay it that it shall not slippe backe a∣gaine.

Also on the fore side of the hole, ye must put a blunt pinne of wood with a round ende of seuen or eight inches long, set loosely in by the knot to stay the string: which pinne yee shall sée clouen in the middest, and in that cleft they vse to put a cherie, or wheat eare, for a baite. Then shall yée spread finely, and lay the string about on the saide short pinne, and your string to haue a running noose. Also the trappe of your stake must be made sharpe that no foule shall light thereon. And when any lights on the short pinne to catch the baite, it falles downe, and the string thereon takes them by the legges. Thus ye may set many such about your grounds, ye may make these trappes on boughes in trées to take them at all times of the yeare if ye list.