172 APPENDIX. 



The writer then proceeds to enumerate the six 

 assortments of the hairs of a white horse's tail, 

 most convenient for the angler's use, together 

 with the various modes of dying the same yellow, 

 green, brown, tawney, russet, dusky, and " lyght 

 plunket colour/' He directs in what seasons and 

 in what waters the different coloured lines are 

 to be used, for the making of which he also gives 

 instructions, together with a cut of the instrument 

 by which the operation of twisting is most con- 

 veniently performed. The rod and line being thus 

 finished, the more difficult branch in the manufacture 

 of an angler's " harnays" comes next. 



" Ye shall understonde that themoost subtyll and 

 hardyste crafte in makynge of your harnays is for 

 to make your hokis. For whoos makyng ye must 

 have fete fyles, thynn and sharpe and smalle beten. 

 A semy clam of yren, a bender, a payr of longe and 

 a payr of small tongys : an harde knyfe somdeale 

 thycke: an anvelde and a lytyll hamour." The fol- 

 lowing cut, showing the different tools, is copied 

 from the original, where they are respectively 

 named, " hamour, knyfe, pynsons, clam, wegge, 

 fyle, wreste, anvelde." 



A consideration of the use of the " clam," evi- 



