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The latch trappe.
[illustration]
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.
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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 is called a latch or brake trappe, it is made
with foure thicke bordes or péeces of timber, in length
thrée quarters of a yeard or lesse, ye may make them as ye
shall thinke good, eyther to sit still in the earth, or often to
be remoued. But if ye will make them to remooue, then
must the vpper fallers be more heauier made. These foure
péeces must be pind at both ends, and the two vpper bordes
or fallers, must lie within the two neather, as ye may sée
by example. Then is there within those neather bordes, a
long bridge, which must be tide at the neather ende of the
catch with a string, and that bridge hath foure holes at the
other ende, for a pinne to put therein to beare and holde vp
the two fallers. Which pinne is put into one of those holes
of the saide bridge, and the other ende of the pinne, stayes
vnder the great square pinne that is betwéene the fallers,
and the string that is tide to that pinne, is tide aboue to a
trounchin, which trounchin lyeth on two forked stakes, set
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in the ground, as ye may sée by example by the neather part of the trappe. Also the neather parts are rebated on the out side, and made edge wise vpward, and hedged on both sides as ye may sée. And to fall toward the hedge is best.