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uided that when the fayd cariage is loded, he forget not to caufe 

 his Cooke and Butler to hang good ftore of bags and bottels 

 about the raues and pinnes thereof, for it will be both comely and 

 comfortable. In this order of battell, a noble man or gentleman 

 may march to befiege the Foxe and Badgerd, in their ftrongeft 

 holes and caftles. And may breake their Cafmats, Platformcs, 

 Parapets, and worke to them with Mynes, and countermines, 

 vntill they get their fkynnes, to make furres and myttens. 



Howe to enter your Terriers according to the 

 ground, and how to trench and dig. Cha. 72 



BEfore you put your Terriers into the ground, you muft haue 

 confideration what kynd of mould it is, and marke well the 

 lituation thereof, and as neare as you can, iudge where aboutes 

 the chiefe angles or chambers fliould be, for elfe you may worke 

 cleane contrarie, and rather hinder the Terriers than further them. 

 As if the earth or burrowe, be hanging on a fide of a banke, you 

 fliall do belle to put in your Terriers bylowe, towardes the 

 vale, to the end that you may make the vermine chamber on the 

 top of the banke, where the earth is not deepe, and where you may 

 digge to him with moft eafe. Againe, if the earth be on the top 

 of a banke, and the banke ftandeth in a playne plot of grounde, 

 then you fhall doe beft to put in your Terriers, in thofe holes 

 which are higheft on the toppe of the banke : and ilrike with a 

 ftaffe vpon the banke, to make the vermine flee downe into the 

 loweft parts, and there to chamber or angle themfelues. It fliall not 

 be amifle, to put in a Terrier or twaine at the firft without any 

 noife, to make the vermindiireuer,andtochamber themfelues. Foxes 

 and Badgerds which haue bin beaten, haue this fubtletie, to drawe 

 vnto the largeft part of the burrow, where three or foure angles 

 meete togethers, and there to ftande at bay with the Terriers, to 

 the ende they may afterwardes fliift, and goe to which chamber 

 they lifl:. In fuch a cafe ftrike harde vpon the ground right ouer 

 them : and if you fee that they will not remoue fo, then take your 

 round hollowed fpade, and digge in to them right vpon them. 

 But when they are chambred, then you flial not digge right vpon 

 them, but right vpon the Terrier. For if you dig right vpon the 



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