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The hoope nette for the Buzard, set against some bush in a plaine or open place.
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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.
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- 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 called the hoope nette, is made thus: yée
must haue a good bigge rodde of two inches about, and
bow him round, so that he be a yeard hie in the middest.
Then tie his two endes with a small packthréed, within
thrée quarters and a halfe quarter, which bowed rodde yée
shall put on a péece of some hay net, of an ell long, and the
other side of the net, on the ground line. Then set two pins
fast in the ground, tyde with packthréede to the two lower
endes of the bowed rodde, which must turne easie, and not
flie vp. Then set before your bridge, with hoolie and pinne
as ye may sée, with a bowed sticke, and a clicket at the o∣ther
ende, which clicket is tide with a string reaching to
the side of the hoope, and the other part vnto the spring rod,
which rodde must lie on the ground, that when the bridge
is put downe, it pluckes the hoope ouer the Buzarde and
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so holdes it still do one, which hoope must be set vp right a∣gainst some bush, and couered with some light fearne. And this is an excellent way in winter to take them.