The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.

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The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same.
Author
Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1721.
Publication
London :: Printed, and are to be sold by Jos. Phillips ... and Hen. Rodes ...,
1686.
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Subject terms
Hunting -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fishing -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Fowling -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Falconry -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Game laws -- England.
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"The gentleman's recreation in four parts, viz. hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing : wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the terms of art for hunting and hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore : whereto is prefixt a large sculpture, giving easie directions for blowing the horn, and other sculptures inserted proper to each recreation : with an abstract at the end of each subject of such laws as relate to the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Page 11

Terms for their Noise at Rutting time.

A Hart Belleth.

A Buck Growneth or Troateth.

A Roe Belloweth.

A Hare Beateth or Tappeth.

An Otter Whineth.

A Boar Freameth.

A Fox Barketh.

A Badger Shricketh.

A Wolf Howleth.

A Goat Ratleth.

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