The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

To feed Pheasants, Partridges, and Quails.

THese may be kept, and fed in one large Room, where you may have in divers Corners, Boxes for them to run in to hide them∣selves, and in the midst of the Room let there be placed three Wheat-sheafs, two with their Ears upwards, and the other with the Ears downwards, and near unto them shallow Tubs with fair Wa∣ter, to the end they may eat and drink at pleasure, which will make them soon fat.

As for the Quail, the best way is to keep them in long flat Boxes, or Coops, with the Sticks or Wyers on the fore-side no wider than for them to put forth their Heads to feed, or drink out of the Troughs; their Food is good small Wheat, and fair Water to drink.

You have been told several ways how to take Phesants, Partridges and Quails, in the Treatise of Fowling, to which I refer you; omitting it here; and having so taken them, put them into your Room, as aforesaid.