A HARD-WORKING DIET. 69 
PERCH.—Good except in April and May. 
BREAME—MACKEREL.—Good in February and 
March. 
MULLET.—Is good in March and April. 
KULLINCK.—Is best at Candlemas day, and 
continues good in April. 
RUDD.—Good in February and March, falls off in 
May. 
GUDGEONS.—Good February, March, April, until 
May—only the young gudgeon is always good with 
parsley. 
BLEAK.—Best in autumn. 
STICKLEBATS.— Are good in March and the 
beginning of May ; when they are full they shall be 
stirred with eggs. 
EEL.—Eel is good in May, till the day of the 
Assumption of our Lady. 
LAMPHREY.—Is never better than in May. And 
LAMPHERN, its brother, is good from the 13 Mass 
to the day of our Lady’s Annunciation. 
CRAYFISH.—Best March and April, particularly 
when the moon increases they are best. | 
Here ends this littie book, that is very profitable. 
And this book was caused to be printed by 
Matthias Van der Gose. 
7. ‘HOLINSHED CHRONICLES. 1586. HOOKER. Hooker, 1586. 
Vols. 1, II. Third book, chap. 3. 
“Of Fish value taken on our Coasts.” 
There is no house, even of the meanest houses, 
which hath not one or more ponds, reservations of 
water. stored with some of them (fish), tench, carp, 
