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The dragin trappe with a great wyar.
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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 and Rats, it
is made of two thinne bordes: the neather borde is
made round at the one end, and broad at the other end, like
a swallow tayle. Then is there an other bord set on edge
in the middest thereof, which borde hath a great wyar
bowed and nayled thereon, as ye may sée: and the rounde
bowght thereof must lie close on the round ende of the nea∣ther
borde. Then is there two short square bordes nayled
and spreading toward the great wyar. Also yee sée at the
toppe of the vpright borde, a long mortis, wherein the wi∣ar
that must holde the clicket and baite, must goe thorowe
and there staye on another wyar, and the like is holden vp
with the vpper ende thereof: which clicket, doe stay on the
toppe of the middle or vpright borde, and so tyde thereat
with a thréede which holdes vp the great wyar, when that
ye will set or tyle him: also the neather borde is set rounde
with sharpe wyars to holde mouce or ratte, and they must
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stande all within the bowght of the great wyar, and it is done. This shewes with the side towardes you, or the halfe thereof.