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The spring trappe for 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.
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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 or trappe, is to take mice, it is made with
a borde of two inches thicke, and in the one ende, yée
must boore so bigge holes as a mouse may easely créep ther∣in,
so many as ye shall thinke good. Then must ye boore a∣gainst
euery of the sayd holes, foure small hole with a pier∣cer
through the sayd borde. And all those holes next the end,
ye shall put in strong thréeds on the vpper holes of the bord,
so they may be set on the ende of the spring, and lie rounde
in each great hole nie the brinke. Then must ye put a smal
thréede through the borde double, and tie him on the spring
stiffe, to holde downe the spring: and those strings next
the end, must beare no tight, but lie slacke, and as they
gnawe a sunder the other thréed to come to the baite, that
takes them by the belly, or necke: and euer as your inner
thréedes are bit a sunder, ye may soone put or drawe them
through with a small wyar againe. Also the other endes
of the springs must be fast set in holes, boared with a small
wimble. Ye may make the like to take Rattes, if ye make
the holes square and bigger.