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and by a certaine parish there called the Parson thereof hath tolde me, he 



hath had so many of the saide Culles and Loches, to his tithe weekely, that they 

 haue founde him sufficient to eate Fridayes and Saterdayes, whereof he was called 

 the Parson of Culles. This order of stones are laide hollow in shallow places lesse 

 then halfe a foot de'epe of water. Which fish among the saide heapes of stones 

 doth there lie safe, and so breedes : and there they are saued from the water Rats, 

 and all other foules, which otherwise would still deuour them. These store of fish, 

 men might haue in diuerse such like riuers in this Realm, if they would take the 

 like paine, to lay such heapes of stones as is aboue set downe : which sheweth the 

 maner of laying them round in the bottome, the circuit of two yeardes about, or as 

 yee shall sde cause. Thus much I thought good to shew for the maintenance and 

 breeding of Culles and Loches. Also it is euident in other Countries, the great 

 care they haue in preseruing their fish, especially in the spring : as in France, no 

 fisher men or other, shall lay any engins in riuers or brookes in the night, as stewes, 

 stalles, buckes, ke'epes, weles, and such like, from mid INIarch, to mid INIay : for then 

 the fish doeth shed their spawne among we'edes and bushes, nor shall not beate the 

 waters or brookes with any plonging poales, nor yet the fisher men to fish at no 

 time, with any net vnder foure inches mash, because they shall not kill the small 

 fish before they are well growen, vppon paine of forfaite and losse of all such 

 engins. There is also prohibited, that no fish shall be taken and solde in markets, 

 which are out of their season : as the Lampre and Lampomes, which are venemous 

 in the Sea before they be scoured in fresh water, and not in season from mid jNIarch 

 to mid September, for they will (being out of season) looke russet and speckled vpon 

 their bellies. Also Oysters and Huskies, are not good from mid March, to mid 

 September : and likewise Salmons and Trowtes, are in season from mid March to 

 mid September, and after waxe out of season. Cockles and such are not kindly 

 but in the monethes of March, Aprill and May : all the rest of the yeare not hole- 

 some to be eaten or solde. Moreouer Darce, Roch, Perch and such like, are not 

 kindly to be kilde from mid March, to the end of May, for in these times they doe 

 cast their spawne, and then they will be rough and broken, scaled and pilde for a 

 while, after they haue so cast their spawne. And being then out of season, they 

 are not so holesome nor yet good of liking. All these afore mentioned with all 



