of fishing. 



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How to breede and increase yeeles in riuers, 

 pondes, and standing zvaters. 



The common saying among fisher men is, if ye wil haue in your pits and pondes 

 (being of a sweete water) great plentie of Yeeles in few yeares, ye shall digge two 

 round or square turfes, whereon the dewe shewes most in the morning before the 

 sunne doe rise. Then take them vp and clappe the greene sides together one vpon 

 another, and pin them fast together with prickes of wood. Then carrie and lay 

 them softly in what pit or pond ye list, and ye shall sde experience. This is to be 

 done in the moneth of May, by the dew then on the ground, and at no other time 

 else of the yeare to be good. 



T/ie Case for to catch Menowes. 



This Gase, is a round net of small mesh, with a hoope of yeirne, or great weir 

 halfe an intch about, and to let sinke in a ditch, or brooke which is not de'epe, and 



