THE MIDDLE AGES. 35 



a place marked and staked out in the river for the capture 

 of fish; by the Junchatica^ an instrument made of rushes ; 

 by the Kedellus, the beetle and weir ; by the Nassa Fol- 

 laria, a thing uncertain, but by which people fished on 

 foot under sluices, in the twelfth century; by the Per- 

 ca/ptura, a series of pales, so disposed in the rivers that 

 the fish might be readily taken, and preserved in nets ; 

 by the Posta, a method of fishing by a net fastened at one 

 end to a stake, with which the fishermen made a circuit, 

 returning to the spot from whence they set out ; by the 

 Ramata, composed of branches of trees thrown into the 

 water, within which the fish might the more easily be 

 captured ; and by the Vena, an inclosure to intercept fish, 

 but of its exact nature we know nothing at the present 

 day. 1 



We shall insert here the curious tract, taken from the 

 original manuscript in Trinity College, Cambridge, entitled 

 Piers Fulkam, supposed to have been written about the 

 year 1420. 



PIERS OF EULLHAM. 



EX MS. TO PP. APTJD TEIN. COLL. CANT. 



Loo worshipfull sirs here after ffolleweth a gentlymaly tretyso 

 full convenyent for contemplatiff louers to rede and understand 

 made by a noble Clerk e Piers of ffulha sum tyme ussher of Venus 



1 Avers, Lignum Piscatftrium. 



