44 To " Breede Millers-Thumbes" etc.. 



at waters [weirs] likewise. They are a 

 pleasant meats, and some do thinke they 

 would be as well in other rivers and 

 running waters, as Huntingdon, Ware, 

 and such like, if those waters were re- 

 plenished with them, as they may be 

 with small charge. 



" They have such a plentie in the fenne 

 brookes, they feede their hogges with 

 them. If other rivers were stored with 

 them, it would be good for the common 

 wealth, as the Carpe which came of late 

 yeares into England. Thus much for the 

 fenne pult." 



This fish is now only seen occasionally 

 in the Trent and a few other rivers. 



There is not much order in Mascall's 

 book ; in fact, it is a collection of notes 

 thrown together in rather a haphazard 

 manner, and, as previously mentioned, it 

 it is not quite clear how much " is taken 

 of Stephanus in French." But there is 

 an English flavour about the names of 

 places mentioned in his account of how 



" To BREEDE MILLERS-THUMBES AND- 

 LOCHES IN SHALLOW BROOKES OR 

 RIVERS. 

 " The fish called Loches, and the other 



called Millers-thumbes or Guiles,* they 



* In Ireland the loach is called " colley." 



