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.

This is called the dead-fall for Polcats, or other Vermine.

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THis engine is called a dead fall, it is made with a square péece of timber or such like, waying about halfe a hun∣dreth poundes or more, with a hole boared in the midst of the vpper side thereof, and therein a hooked crooke set fast. Also there is foure forked stakes which must be set fast in the ground, and laying thereon two cudgils a crosse, on which cudgils, ye shall lay a long staffe or poale to hold vp the dead fall by the crooch: vnder which crooch ye shall put a short cudgell, with a line made fast thereunto, which line reacheth downe to the bridge beneath: which bridge ye shall make within fiue or sixe inces broad, like those that are made for the foresaide hutch.

Also on both sides of this fall, ye may set it with borde, pale, or such like: either ye may hedge it with close rods, and to make it ten inches hie or more. The foure spreading corners, are made to shewe the lowe hedges, that no ver∣mine shall passe so easily by, but come thorow the fall, and

the passage must be made no wider then the fall is broade. Some Warreners do make no tay of the bridge behinde, but sets it loose against a pinne before the clicket, and so it stayes vpon the fall.