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Title: The wild-fowler : a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Folkard, Henry Coleman
Subjects: Fowling Waterfowl shooting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London (England) : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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no fowle that do remaynein the countrye ; a man disposed to have a flight wt. hawkes may seeke tenn mylesere he fynde one eoople of fowls to fly at, wheare in all yeres past there shulde havebeen founde in the same places vc. eoople of fowls. I have spoken to the clarke ofthe peace within NorfoUi:, who asserteyned me by his book, not to be above thenumber of iij persons entered into his booke for to shoote in gonnes, but surelie Ithink ther be ^vt. in this shyre that daylie doth exercyse and practyse shooting atfowle wt. there gonnes not so few as three score, of which number I cannot heare ofany that may spend of lands being their owne above iiij scr. lb. by yere. If this benot reamyded, you wt. aU the rest of the nobilitie may put forth your hawkes tobreede and to keepe no more. And thus I beseeche God to have yor. Lordshippeand my good Lady your wyfFe in moche honor. Yors. to comaunde, Edmunde Bedingpiei,u.—Vide The History and Antiquities of Hengrave; hy John Gage, Esq., F.S.A.
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ANCIENT METHODS OF CAPTURING WILD-FOWL. 13 Some of the contrivances of tlie ancient fowler, previous to theinvention of decoys, strike us at the present day as exceedingly^otesque and simple; hut, as they are transmitted to us by authorsof reliable authority in those days,* and by them asserted as the bestand most effectual means of taking- wild-fowl, we are bound to believethat some, at least, of these manoeuvres were highly successful.Nets of various forms and sizes were also freely employed; andthose used for taking- the largest sort of wild-fowl were made of strongpack-thread, with large meshes, at least two inches in extent from^poynt to poynt. One of the most successful methods of taking wild-fowl was with anet of the description stated; twelve yards in length by eight inbreadth, which was as large as one man could dextrously manage oroverthrow. This net being* verged on each side with a stout cord, itwas stretched on poles, and spread ilat upon the gTound, at least twohours bef

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