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 spring net for Buzard or other kind of foule.

THis spring net or hoope net, is to take the Buzarde on the plaine, or to take Crowes, Pyes, or other small birdes with their naturall baites, as the worme for the Blackbird, & the Nytingale: it may be made with a hoope of wood, or of yrne, or stéele wyar, ye must bring the endes

together fortie as ye shall thinke good. Then lap those ends with horse haire, or packth••éed, so oft about the ends as ye sée good: then put a piune of yrne, or of wood, betwéene the

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saide haire or line. Then turne & twist the haire as ye do for a mouce trappe, so stiffe as ye shall sée cause, so knocke that yrne pin into the ground where ye will set your net. Then take a small string that must be tide in the midst of y^e hoope, which string must haue a knot at the end, so put it vnder the wreath of haire, and thorow a hole in a pinne of wood set in the ground before the yrne pin, and let the knot of the same string, rest in the sayd hole. Then fill the said hole with an other short pinne of wood made blunt, putting it slight into the hole, to stay the knot of the string that kéepes downe the net, and on that short pinne, make a hole, or slit, & put a thorne with a baite theron: and when any thing do touch the baite, the short pinne will soone fall, and the string slips through the hole, and so the net turnes suddenly vpon the fowle. Thus much for ordering this kinde of net.