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A11257	A ievvell for gentrie Being an exact dictionary, or true method, to make any man vnderstand all the art, secrets, and worthy knowledges belonging to hawking, hunting, fouling and fishing. Together with all the true measures for winding of the horne. Now newly published, and beautified with all the rarest experiments that are knowne or practised at this day.	T. S., fl. 1614.; Berners, Juliana, b. 1388? Boke of Saint Albans.	1614 (1614)	STC 21520; ESTC S110758	61,935	100

betwéene Michaelmas and Candlemas of an ell and a halfe long being the arme of a great Hasell Willow or Aspe and beth him in a hot Ouen and set it euen and straight and let it coole a month then take a cord and binde it fast about and binde it to a forme or to a péece of square timber then take a Plummers wyer that is euen and straight and sharpe the one end and heate it in a fire of Charcole and burne the hole quite through in the pith beginning at both ends and goe on to the middle you may burne the hole with a Bird-broch but let the last broch be bigger then any of them before then let it lye and coole two dayes vnbinde it and let it lye in the smoake or the roofe of a house till it be through drie In the same season cut a yard of gréene Hasell and deth it euen and straight and let it drie with the staffe and when it is drie make it fit for the hole in the staffe vnto the halfe length of the staffe and to fill the other halfe of the crope take a fayre shute of blacke Thorne Crab trée Medler or else of Iuniper cut in the same season and well bethed and straight and set them fit together so that the crop may enter all into the said hole then shaue your staffe and make it Taper-wise then hoope the staffe at both ends with long hoopes of yron or latten after the cleanliest manner and a pike in the neather-end fastened with a running wyer to take in and out of your staffe and set your crop a handfull within your vpper end of your staffe in such wise that it be as bigge there as in any other place aboue then arme your staffe downe to the fret with a Line of sixe haires and double the Line and fret it fast on with a péece of a bowe And thus you shall make you a staffe to walke with and no man shall thinke that you haue such Implements about you It will be very light and nimble to fish with at your pleasure and is alwaies very readie and necessary AFter you haue thus made your Rod you must learne to colour your Lines of haire after this manner You must take of a white horse tayle the longest haires you can get and the bigger and rounder they are the better it is depart them into sixe parts colour euery part by himselfe in diuers colours as yealow gréene tawnie browne russet or duskie colour And for to make your haire take a good gréene colour you must take a quart of Ale and put into it halfe a pound of Allom and put your haire and all together in a little Pan and let them boyle softly halfe an houre then take out your haires and let them drie then take a pottle of faire water and put it into a Pan and two handfuls of Waxen and presse it with a Tyle stone and let it boyle softly the space of an houre and when it is yealow on the scumme put therein your haires with halfe a pound of Copperous beaten into powder and let it boyle the space of going of halfe a mile and then set it downe and let it coole the space of fiue or sixe houres then take out the haire and drie it and it will be the best gréene for the water that can be and the more that you put of Copperous to it the better it will be For to make your haire yealow DResse it as before with Allom and after with Oldes or Waxen without Copperous or Verdigrease To make another yealow TAke a pottle of small Ale and stamp thereinto thrée handfuls of Walnut leaues and put it together and then put in your haire till it be as déepe as you will haue it For to make Russet haire TAke a pinte of strong Lée and halfe a pound of Sote and a little iuyce of Walnut leaues and a quart of Alom put them altogether in a Pan and boyle them well and when it is cold put in your haire till it be as darke as you will haue it To make your haire browne TAke strong Ale and Salt and mingle them together and put your haires two dayes and two nights and they will be a perfect colour For to make a tawnie colour TAke Lime and Water and put them together and then put your haires therein foure or fiue houres then take them out and put them into a Tanners Ose one day and it will be as fine a tawny colour as can be for your purpose The sixt part of your haire you shall kéepe still white for lines for the double hooke to fish for the Trout and for small lines to lie for the Roch and the Dace When your haire is thus collected you must know for which waters and which seasons they shall serue the gréene colour for all cleare waters from Aprill vntill September The yealow colour in euery cleare water from September to Nouember For it is like the Wéeds and other kinde of grasse that is broken in the Riuer The russet colour serueth all the Winter vntill the end of Aprill as well in Riuers as in Pooles or Lakes The browne colour serueth for the water that is blackish in Riuers or other Waters the tawny colours for those Riuers or Waters that be heathy or moorish Now you must make your lines after this order First you must haue an instrument for the twisting of your line Take your haire and cut a handfull at the end because it is not strong enough then turne the top to the tayle ouer each alike and make it into thrée parts knit euery part by himselfe and knit the other end altogether then put that end fast into your instrument into the clift and make it fast with a wedge foure fingers shorter then your haire then twine your warpe one way alike and fasten them in thrée clifts alike straight then take that out at the other end and let it twine that way that it desireth then straine it a little and knit it for vndoing and that is good So when you haue so many links as will suffice for a line to make it long enough then must you knit them together with a water knot or a Dutch knot and when your knot is knit cut off the voyd shore ends a straw breadth from the knot thus shall your lines be fayre and euen and also sure for any manner of Fish The finest practise is in making your hookes and for the making of them you may haue your seuerall kinde of tooles that you may doe them artificially A séemy clam of yron a bendor a payre of long and small tongues and a knife somewhat hard and thicke an Anuill and a little Hammer And for a small Fish you shall take the smallest quarrell Néedles that you can finde of Steele and you shall put the Quarrell in a fire of Charcole till it be of the same colour that the fire is then take it

then by rubbing warme meat vpon her féete and tickling her so as she may looke downeward and sometimes by touching her beake with the meat and then putting it to her féete againe you shall make her learne to féede which after she hath taken a bite or two she will doe willingly then you shall begin to watch her and not suffer her to take any rest till she be so gentle and patient that she will suffer you to take off her hoode and put it on againe and will féede bare fac'st without taking any offence or bating then being hard penned she may be drawne to be reeclaymed for while she is tender penned she is not able to be rclaymed and if she be a Goshawke or Tercell that is reclaimed euer féed her with washt meat at the drawing and at the reclaiming but let it be hot and in this manner wash it Put the meat into the water and strike it vp and downe in the water and wring the water out of it and féede her therewith if she be a Brauncher and if it be an Eyes you must wash it cleaner then ye doe to the Brauncher and with a linnen cloath wipe it and féede her and euermore the third day when she is flying giue her casting and if she be a Goshawke or Tercell in this manner Take new Blanket cloath and cut fine morsels with a kniues point make a hole in euery morsell and put in the pellets of cloath and put them in a faire dish of water then take the Hawke and giue her a morsell of hot meat the quantitie of halfe her supper then take that which lyeth in the water and feede her for all night How you shall feed your Hawke and to know her infirmities and of the diuersities of them IF your Hawke be a Sparhawke euer féed her with vnwasht meate and looke that her casting be plumage then looke it be cleane vnder the Perch for the next day you shall finde her casting vnder the Perch and therby you shal know whether she be cleane or not for some péeces will bée yellow and some gréene and some clammy and some cleare and if it be yellow she ingendreth the Frounce which is an euill that will rise in the mouth or in the cheeke and if it be gréene she ingendreth the Rye the condition of this euill is this it will arise in the head and make the head swel and the eye wil be heauy and darke and if it be not holpen it wil fall downe into the legs and make them ranckle and if it goe into the head againe then the Hawke is lost if it be clammy the ingendreth an euill called the Cray which is when she may not mutise or mute Marke well your Medicines heere following FOr the Frounce in the mouth take the small end of a siluer spoone and put it into the fire till it be hot then open the beake and burne the sore annoint it with the marrow of a Goose that hath lyen long and it will helpe her if the Frounce be great then there is a gurb in it which you must cut with a Raser hold the Hawke and slit the place where the sore is and you shall finde in it as it were the maw of a Pigeon take a paire of shéeres and snip the sore and make it as cleane as you can with a linnen cloth and annoint the sore foure daies with Balme and afterwards with Pampilion till it be whole The Frounce commeth when a man féedeth his Hawke with Porke or Horse-flesh foure daies together For default of hot meat the disease of the Rye commeth and the best cure therefore is to let her tyre much vpon sinewic and tough meat as the ●umps of Mutton Béefe or such like and with the same to mingle euer a handfull of Parcelie that as she teares the meate she may teare it also How the Cray commeth THe Cray commeth of washt meat which is washt with hot water for lacke of hot meat it commeth of thréeds which is in the flesh that the Hawke is fed with and though ye picke the flesh neuer so cleane ye shall finde thréeds therin And the best cure is with a little warme oyle of Roses to bath and cleanse her tuell or fundament and then to giue her the scowring of Selladine rootes dipt in Oyle of Roses also When your Hawke shall bathe her EVery third day let your Hawke bathe her during Summer if it be faire weather once in a wéeke in Winter if it be warme and not else and when you bath your Hawke euer giue her some hot meat vnwashed although she bee a Goshawke and the best hot meate is Sparrowes or other small birds and next them the Pigeon Rooke or Chicken How you shall make your Hawke flye with a good courage in the morning IF you will haue her flye in the morning feede her the night before with hot meat and wash the same meat in vrine and wring out the water cleane and that will make her haue a lustie courage to flie after the best manner How you shall guide your Hawke if she be full gorged and that you would gladly haue a flight IF your Hawke be full gorged and that you would spéedily haue her flye take foure cornes of Wheat and put them in a morsell of flesh and giue it her to eate and shée will quickly cast all that is within her and after that she hath cast looke that you haue some hot meat to giue her Yet vse this but seldome for feare it bring your Hawke to such a weakenesse of stomacke that the will not be able to indue any meat at all Another medicine for the Rye TAke D●●e leaues and stampe them in a Morter and wring out the iuyce with a pen put it into the Hookemares once or twise when the Hawke is small gorged and anone after let her lyre and she shall be as whole as a fish Also and you giue your Hawke fresh Butter or Marrow of Hogs that is in the bone of the leg of Porke it will make her cast water at the mares but it will make her haughtie and proud Another medicine for the Cray TAke and chafe the fundament of your Hawke with your hand and warme water a good while and after that take the powder of Saxifrage or else the powder of Rew and a quantitie of May Butter and temper them well together then put it in a little Boxe and stop it close and euery meale when you féede your Hawke annoint her meate therewith and for the loue of the oyntment she will eate her meat the better This experiment will kéepe her from the Cray and many other sicknesses that oft ingender in Hawkes Also take the whole heart of a Pigge and féede her therewith two daies and it will make her whole Also take Porke and put it into hot Milke and féede your Hawke therwith and that will make your Hawke mute after the best manner And

and for to bring vp and nourish their young Birds and Fowles that bée of more hot and dry kinde dwell on Mountaines and on high Rockes and stones as Birds and Fowles that liue by pray as Eagles and Fawlkons and other such to the which kinde giueth crooked Clawes and strong féete Also some wood-Fowles vse to dwell in Woods and thicke tops of trées and some of those be more milde then other as Birds that sing in sommer time with swéete notes in Woods and Trées And other birds there be that liue onely in fields and vse to be therein and get their meate and eate continually of the fruit of the earth as Cranes and Géese both wilde and tame and such Fowles loue to dwell together both on the ground and in the ayre and goe and flie together in heards and loue their owne kinde and make a King among them Séeing I haue declared the nature and propertie of Fowles in the ayre I thought good to set downe some rules belonging to Fowling to help to further some in that practise which would faine learne and hath no teacher which both to the pleasuring of them and small labour of my selfe I haue done my good will First of Fowling with Limetwigges and how wée should set our Limetwigges for sortes of Fowle You must chuse Limetwigs of those twigs that grow on the body of the Trée and not of bow twigges for that they be brittle and will not hold but will snap a two but the twigs that grow on the body of the Trée are young bending twigs and you must haue to your whole set a thousand lust There is also diuers other manners of Fowling as with Nets Springes baites and snares with diuers other But to speake first of Fowling with Limetwigs as some are set low and some high and that is as we know the haunt of the Fowle that vses to that place whether they be Géese Duckes Snipes or Hearnes or Craines or any other manner of Fowle that vses to the place that you set your Limerods in If you set your Roddes for wilde Géese you must sticke them in a manner vpright and halfe a yarde a sunder which is almost narrow inough for a Snipe if you should stick them any closer there would no Fowle venter in at all for the wild Goose is the subtilest Fowle of any for when she lighteth she lighteth most commonly in the déepest waters for feare of deceit if she come out of the water to land she will spie to sée if she can spie any thing before her if she spy any thing she will into the water againe but euer when you sticke your Rods sticke them so that the tailes of your Rods may be towards the water if you sticke them by any Riuer side and the heads of your Rods stooping from the Riuer that the Fowle may come with the Rods for there is no Fowle that will come against the Rods nor is able almost if they would but being your Rods turned from the Riuer they will be the bolder to goe onwards and then they can no way escape And so likewise set your Rods about the whole plat that you set with their tailes outwards and their heads stooping inward for the Fowle will be the bolder to goe amongst your Rods if they chaunce to light beside them but you must giue good attendance vpon your Rods least that the Fowle which is tangled doe picke themselues and get away againe but you must lye very close least that the Fowle doe chance to spye you but if it bée somewhat darkish that you cannot espye whether there be any Fowle lighted among your Rods then go to your Rods and giue ashue and if there be any they will flutter straight and flye vpward and if that there be none then take your staffe and beate the Riuers and Lakes within halfe a myle compasse once or twise if you be able to compasse it or more and then shall you haue them resort to your Limerods very thicke for he that mindes to catch any must so trauell that he leaue no Lakes or Springes vnsearched and sée that your Limerods bée set somewhat low round about at the very entring for that is good for all manner of Fowle but if that they be set high within it is good reason that the Fowle doth shut her wings before she is altogether at the ground and see that you doe set your Rods within one another about thrée quarters or halfe a yard a sunder almost and if it fréeze hard you must trim them with a little new Lime and Goose-grease mingled together and that will kéepe them long from fréezing And if there be any speciall place which Fowles doe resort to as in déepe waters and running Riuers and that the Riuer is déepe that you cannot set your Rods in then take a pole or a cord and a long hay-rope that will winde round about the length of the pole then take your Lime-rods and sticke them very thicke and loose withall and then lay your pole or poles ouer the Riuer and thrust the end of your pole within the banke and tye the other end of your pole next to you to the banke side and sée that your pole be a prety way within the water and that the heads of your Rods doe stand close to the water and thus may you set as many poles or cords as you thinke the place doth desire and sticke your rods very loosely that they may goe with the fowle as soone as they touch them Good Spaniell a treasure to Fowler sure is To helpe him sometime else oft should he mis For water and land it is a good thing A Spaniell to haue his game for to bring Also there is another manner of way to catch in the water with small cords being tyed ouerthwart the water and lime them as you doe Lime-rods with good water-lime as we call it though indéed it is but Bird-lime but it is tempered to hold within the water which it will doe if you let the cords be but a little within the water that it may scarce couer it and if the water be broad then take a Corke or two and tie them to your Line to hold it vp This is a pretie way and not to be suspected How to make Bird-lime very pure FIrst pill the barke from the Holly-trée about Midsomer then boyle the same barke till the vtter rinde will pill from the gréene barke which will be within one day then lay the same inner barke so pilled in some close place on the ground and couer the same with some gréene wéeds or docks till it be well rotten which will be within nine daies or there about then eyther beate it in morters or grinde it very small and then in some quicke streame wash it very cleane then put it in a pot of earth and it will spurge within thrée dayes then take off the scumme twise or thrise for if there be any filth left

the same baites that you doe for the Gudgeon sauing they must be small The Eele is a queasie fish and a rauenor and a deuourer of the brood of fish the Pyke is also a deuourer of fish I put them both behinde all other fish for to angle For the Eele you shall finde a hole in the ground of water and it is blew and blackish there put in your hooke till it be a foote within the hole and your bayte shal be a great angle with a Menow The Pyke is a good fish but that he is a deuourer of all fish as well of his owne broode as of other and therefore I loue him the worse and for to take him ye shall doe thus Take a Roch or a fresh Herring and a wyer with a hooke in the end and put it in at the mouth and downe by the ridge to the tayle of the Herring and then put the line of your hooke in after and draw the hooke into the chéeke of the fresh Herring then put a plumbe of lead on your line a yard from you hooke a flote in the midway betwéene and cast it in a pit where the Pykes vse and this is the best and surest way to take and thrée manners of taking him there is Take a Frosh and put it on your hooke betwéene the skin and the body in at the necke on the backe halfe and put on the flote a yard thereto and cast it where the Pyke haunteth and you shall haue him Another way Take the same bayt and put it in safe tied and cast it into the water with a Corke and you shall not faile of him And if you minde to haue good sport then tie your cord to a Goose foot and you shall sée good haling bewéene the Goose and the Pyke who shall haue the better Now you know with what bayts and in what seasons of the yéere you shal angle for euery kinde of fish now I meane to tell you how you shall kéepe and féede your quicke bayts You shall kéepe them all in general and euery one seuerall by himselfe with such things as they are bred in and as long as they be quicke and new they be fine but when they be in a slough or dead then they are nought Out of these be excepted thrée broodes that is Hornets Humble Bées and Waspes which you shall bake in bread and dip their heads in bloud let them drie Also except Maggots which when they be bred great with their naturall féeding you shall féed them furthermore with Shéepes tallow And take héed that in going about your disports you open no mans gates but that you shut them againe Also you shall not vse this sport craftily for couetousnesse to the increasing and sparing of your money onely but principally for your solace and for the maintenance of your bodily health For when you purpose to goe on your disports in fishing you will not desire greatly many persons with you which might let you of your game and then your minde may be well giuen to the seruing of God as in prayer or otherwise and in so doing you shall eschew and auoid many vices as Idlenes which is the principall leader to vice and it is commonly séene that it bringeth diuers to their vtter destruction Also you must not be too desirous of your game but with discretion that you marre not other mens game and your owne to as too much at one time which you may lightly do if in euery point you fulfill this present Treatise but when you haue a sufficient messe to content your selfe for that time Also you shall apply your selfe to the nourishing of the game and in destroying of such things as shall be the deuourers of it FINIS