The Samson poste for Rattes.
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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 June 17, 2024.
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THis engine is called the Samson poste, it is stayde vp
on thrée péeces, and one beares the burden of all, with
the helpe of the other two péeces, and made as ye may sée,
with notches one to stay vppon the other. These thrée
stickes which ye sée, the broadest is called the bridge, and
that is made broade and thinne and long withall, to reach
vnder the planke or borde a good way, and bayted at the
end thereof. The next is the crosse barre which stayes vp
the planke or borde, set in a nicke in the end of the bridge.
The third is the piller or poste set almost vpright, which
stayes the bridge for falling to the ground, which bridge
must alwayes stand from the ground an inch or more, that
he may the sooner fall when he is touched. Also yee may
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make them in length as ye shall sée cause for the bredth of your bordes or plankes, which must be somewhat heauie alwayes.