The following trappe.
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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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- Subject terms
- 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 following trappe for Mice, it
is made with two square bordes, the bottome and the
fall borde, with edge bordes of an inch hie, round about the
neather borde, and set with two wing bordes of each side
one, with a crosse lath ouer the middest to tye the string of
the clicket. Which string comes downe to the bridge, plast
with a crosse bridge, and then is there wreathed corde, or
haire, vnder the lath aboue, and in that wreath, is put the
following staffe, which as soone as the lidde doe fall, that
following staffe holdes it downe, and the falling borde is
nayled with two leathers, as yée may sée, to the lower