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 square mouce trappe.

The mouce trap with a dish & a filboll.

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THis engine or square mouce trappe, is made of two bordes, with a hole boared thorough them both at the lower end, and a pinne set set fast in the hole of the neather borde, and comes thorow the vpper borde: which vpper borde riseth and falleth thereon. Then is there a string tide at the sayde pinne with a long bridge, and a pinne on the vpper bord afore with a short string and a clicket tide ther∣vnto, to stay vp the vpper borde, and so it is done. This is a slight way, and soone made for mice.

The other trappe, is with a dish or bowle, tylde vp with a silboll, such as they make to fill puddings, which is made with a thinne stice of wood or such like, with a tayle of thrée inches long, and thereon is the baite tyed. The filboule his bowght is commonly one inch and more hie, to holde vppe the dish, that the mouce touch not the dish before she come

to the baite. Then when she stirs the baite, the dish fals ouer the filboll, and the filboll within, and the mouse also. Then ye may set a vessell of water, and let the mouse fall therein. And thus it is vsed, and also quickly made.