3o6 APPENDIX. 



three Metiers for one Spawner -, but in a bare- 

 ly feeding Pond, no Care is to be taken, whe- 

 ther there be moft male or female Carps.. 



DISCOURSE II. 



Of the Laws of i^ngling. 



TH E Laws of England being all public, 

 Ignorance of their Contents excufcs no 

 Offender. It will not be amifs therefore to 

 fay fomething of thofe which concern the 

 Angler, that he may have a certain Know- 

 iedge, how, without Offence, to demean 

 himfelf amongft his Neighbours, when he 

 goes about his Sport. 



Tho* this Recreation be fimply in itfcif 

 lawful 5 yet none iliould go on another's 

 Ground, without the Licence of the imm.e- 

 diate Owner. But if one have Licence to 

 enter into a Clofe for fuch a Space of Time, 

 tho' he praftife Angling all that Time, he is 

 not a TrefpafTer, becaufe his Fi filing is no 

 Abufe of his Licence ; but this is to be un- 

 derftood only of Running-Streams, and not 

 of Pits, Ponds, and Handing Pools, the Own- 

 er whereof hath a Property in the Fifli. Brook, 



No Felony can be committed by taking 

 Fifh out of their natural Liberty in Rivers, 

 becaufe they are no Man's Property •, but Fe- 

 lony may be committed of Fi flies in a Trunk, 

 Net, or Pond, becaufe they are not at their 

 natural Liberty, Coke Inil. 3. 



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