A Mill to take 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 June 17, 2024.
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THis engine or Mill, is made of ij. thin bords,
and thicker in the midst, then at the ends.
The one halfe of the bredth is set in & ioyned
within the other halfe, and boared with a per∣cer
thorough the midst, and there is put thorow
a great wyar, or a smal pinne of wood, as yée
may sée, and that pinne is put into a thicke bord
of four inch bord, which borde lyeth on some ta∣ble
or other borde from the ground halfe a yeard, or as yée
shall thinke good: and set some panne or pot with water
vnder your mill, and baite your mill on both sides of each
leafe with some butter, mixt with otmele and sugar, and
set all other things away, and so shall ye drowne thréescore
or more perhaps in a night, as I haue séene done, if there
be store. Ye shall make your mill to turne very easely, that
the least weight thereon shall turne it. Also set your Mill
an inch from your square borde that the pinne is in, and
baite your borde with some otmeale, to tice them to the
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mill. Thus may yée soone destroy them, if your house bée troubled with them neuer so much.