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Tench, being used to feeding, will, bite at the 

 red worme, paste made of dough, or the gras- 

 hopper, most part of the Sommer season. The 

 Tench also is a fish very easilie taken in a Bownet, 

 and whosoever hath of them in his ponds, it 

 behooveth him to take great heede that he be not 

 deceived by leud people. 



Taverner incorrectly states that the Roach will 

 not spawn in any ponds : 



The shallow 1 or pond Roch with the red fins will 

 spawne in most ponds. The river Roch 2 and Dace 

 will not spawne in any pond : howbeit if your pond 

 be neare any river, and that there runne any water 

 from it in the Sommer time, you shall find that 

 they will come into the same against the streame, 

 where you would think it unpossible : and so will 

 Pickerell and Perch. And I have heard some affirme 

 very constantly, that water-fowle do often times bring 

 the spawne of such fish in their feathers into ponds. 

 Others will affirme, that the heat of the Sunne may 

 draw up such spawne of fish before it be quicke, 

 and so the same taking life in the moist ayre, may 

 afterward fall downe in a shower of raine into a 

 pond : the reason that hath mooved many men so to 

 thinke, is, because they have found such kind of fish 

 in their ponds, where they are sure that they nor any 

 other have ever put any such. Howbeit surely the 

 same have come into the sayd ponds against the 

 streame, as aforesaid, in Sommer flouds, and not by 

 any such other monstrous generation, as is last afore 

 mentioned. 



I will conclude my extracts from this very interest- 



1 Shallow or Rudd, Leuciscus erythrophthalmus. 



2 The Roach, Leuciscus rutilus. 



