Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. : Contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business. As namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock. / By G.M.

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
Date:
1654
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Credit: Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. : Contayning the wholesome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himself after the toyle of more serious business. As namely hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling and the use of the fighting cock. / By G.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t m CoHntryContenments. i.Book fiOi elpfciall^ Troucs, Greviifo,or any that lye in holes in the banks;' the belt way to deftroy them is by hunting them with wateh-Doggs which is a very good fport, and I have feen twen- ty klld In an afcernoonibut fomc do ufe to tike i.hcni with hut- ches, or dcad-fah, fee in their haunts,but the former way |s the j better# ' f Next them theSe4-pye, and Sea-mew ^ is a great Divourer j ot confiiitier of Fifh 3 and there is no beettr way tb take him than by fettingRods dreft with water Li me, and let ihoring CR the edge of the water^one gefle or row over another, in fuch places as the Water is moft (halloweft, and upon forac tufts of green Weeds lay afifh fora baite under therodsj at which he canno fooner ftrikebuthe is prefcntly taken. ,. ' Next tkefe the Kings Fiftier ^ which is a imall grecne bird) is a great deftroycr of FUh, and the way to take him is to marke kis haunt where he commonly ficteth, which is ever in fome btifh next the River: then feta little Cradlcof limed ftrawes about his feat, and they will quickly take him, for he fcldomc ■ changeth,blit ever fitteth upon one bough. Now to Conclude,for the Gormorant,tbc Merehenj the bald •cootjor the Ofpray, which deftroy all kind of filh wfaatfoever,' there is no way better to kill them then by watching Aeir haunt$,toflioot at them with a Fowling peece, and inthebrec- dkig time of the year to deftroy their nefts, CHAP. 17- Of the Orders »fPt»dt,f«r the ndkrifimenf tf Fijh. THere is nothing that killeth Pilhj ormaketh themtopro^ perworfcj than putrified andftinking water: neither is there any thing which corrupteth water fooner than Weeds# ^ Sedge, and fuch filthinefs being fuffered to grow thereinj' Therefore it (hall be good once in three years for to clenfe TOur j Ponds of all manner of Weeds and filch , which with a finall I Boat and a (harp hook you may eafily do at the fall of the leate, j for to cut them in the Spring doth incrcafc them. Now ifyour j| Pondi be much fubjefl: to mud,as for the moft part thole in clay M j.