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How to hunte and take Conies. Chap. 6^ 



HE that would take Conies muste hunte with two or three 

 Spanels or curres made for the purpofe, amongft the hedges 

 and buflies where he knoweth that the Conies do lie : he may alfo 

 haue fmal Greyhoundes for the purpofe to courfe at them : but in 

 t heir default, the Spanels or curres will driue them into thcyr" 

 Burrowes : t hen fet purfenettes vpon al the holes, or as many of 

 t hem a^you can iinde , and put in a .berret cloie mulJeled^ and 

 f he will make the Conies holte out againe into your purfen ets, 

 and fo you dial take t hern^ Remember that your Jb erret be clofe 

 mulled, tor els ine will kill the Conie in the ground, and perad- 

 uenture will not come out againe of three or foure dayes after. 



^For default of a Ferret, you may make Conies come out of their 

 Burrowes with the pouder of Orpyne and Brimftone, and make 

 a fmother with them, and it will make the Conies bolte out of 

 the earth, and fo you (hall take them in your purfenets. >Mine 

 Audhor telleth furthermore of making fmal low hedgerowes al 

 alongft downe by y® fide of fome hedge which is wel repleniflied 

 with Conies : and that the fayde lowe hedges Ihould be made o- 

 uerthwart contrarie to the flanding of the quicke hedge : and that 

 fundrie holes fhould be made in them, at the whiche he would 



. fet purfenets or other nettes, and fo take the Conies, hunting 

 them vp and downe with a Spaniell or curre. But he feemeth not 

 to haue feene our Englifh Warreyns, nor our maner of taking 

 of our Conies. For (thanked be God) there are fundry Lordes and 

 Gentlemen in England, which haue their groundes fo well re- 

 pleniflied, as they would cunne a man but fmall thanks whiche 

 fhuld fo fmother theyr burrowes with Brimflone or Orpin : for 

 in deede that will marre a Burrow, and driue the Conies cleane 

 from it. But wee take them principally with heyes: next with 

 pursenets and Ferrets : thirdly with a drawing Ferret when they 

 be yong : and againe we haue a kind of dogges called tumblers, 

 which will kill Conies abundantly, and after a maruelous fafliion. 

 Of all thefe fortes of taking Conies, together with the order to 

 keepe a Warreyn from vermin, 1 wil hold no longer difcourfe : 

 for in deede it is fomewhat befides my purpofe, fince I 



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