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realme doth permit and allow, not to vse fire, handguns, crossebowes, oyles, oint- 

 ments, pouders, and pellets made to cast in the waters to stonny and poyson the 

 fish, nor yet to vse all sorts of nets, and such as are deuourers of fish, as bow nets, 

 casting nets, small trammels, shoue nets, and draught nets : which are destroyers of 

 fish before they are growen to any bignesse. These are not nieete to be vsed but 

 of certaine Gentlemen in their seuerall waters, I would wish no running waters 

 should be let to any fisher man, without order what mesh, what nets, he or they shall 

 vse to fish with, and in what moneths of the yeare to refraine fishing, vpon paine to 

 forfaite his lease and all such engins. 



Also it shall be good for all Gentleinen and others, hauing the gouemment of 

 any riuers, brookes, or standing pooles, to replenish them with all such kinde of 

 fish as may there be preserued or bred, aswell of straying as others. There is a 

 kinde of fish in Holand, in the fennes beside Peterborrow, which they call a poult, 

 they be like in making and greatnesse to the Whiting, but of the cullour of the 

 Loch : they come foorth of the fenne brookes, into the riuers nigh there about, as 

 in Wansworth riuer there are many of them. They stirre not all the sommer, but 

 in winter when it is most coldest weather. There they are taken at Milles in 

 Welles, and at wayers likewise. They are a pleasant meate, and some do thinke 

 they would be aswell in other riuers and running waters, as Huntington, Ware, and 

 such like, if those waters were replenished with them, as they may be with small 

 charge. They haue such plentie in the fenne brookes, they feede their hogges with 

 them. If other riuers were stored with them, it would be good for a common 

 wealth, as the Carpe which came of late yeares into England. Thus much for the 

 fenne pult. 



