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YE shall vnderstand (as some farmers do saie) moles do bréed but once a yeare, and that is in the spring: about March, and Aprill, they go to bucke, and commonlie about S. Markes daie they do kindle, and will haue young.
Therfore from mid March, ye shall view your groundes,
where ye may sée anye great and high hils, for commonly there they will breede, which hils ye shall sée, both of old and new cast, & commonly they which are new cast, they make their nests in the mids thereof very low, much like the field mouse, and some will make them in the hedge sides, and in bushes: some in plaine fieldes viii. score from any bush or hedge, casting a great hill as bigge as two barrow stils. And if ye then let them alone till the end of Aprill, soone after S. Markes day, ye may then possibly take all the young in the nest, and then after ye may watch the trench for their dam, for she wil come vnto them to séeke them.
Also ye may trench for the female about her nest, a prety way of, and so ye may possibly take her, in coming and go∣ing to her nest, before she do kindle: For if ye spoile her nest, before he haue kindled, she wil then go farre of and bréede in some other place, which ye shall hardly find, or come to take her, and then when she hath young, she wilbe very subtill for to take, & she will beat her young from place to place, & will not suffer them to bolte nor yet worke shallow: Therefore, it will be the more harder to take them, and she will cōmon∣ly haue at a time vi. or vii. young.
Likewise all the winter, they wil cast against moist wea∣ther very much: both in Nouember, and December being wet and warme withal: and because the daies are short, and the nightes long, they will be sturring very early in the mor∣ning sometimes before day light, and late toward night. Therefore ye must watch their times accordingly whē they go out and come home againe.