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 Ba/rkefs Art of 
 
 "ANGLING. 
 
 WHEREIN 
 
 Are discovered many rare Secrets, 
 very necessary to be knowne 
 
 by all that delight in 
 that Recreation. 
 
 
 
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The Art of 
 
 ANGLING. 
 
 WHEREIN 
 
 Are discovered many rare Secrets, 
 very necessary to be knowne 
 
 by all that delight in 
 that Recreation. 
 
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 The Art of Angling. 
 
 ^^^1^ EADER : I will complement, and put a 
 
 ? S^ ^^^^ ^^ y^"' ^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ man, and upon 
 ♦ R ^ ^ our Discourse he fell out with me : this 
 |^<^ifrAA nmn having a good weapon, having nei- 
 38C^^^^^ ther wit, stomack, nor skill ; I say this 
 man may come home by Totnam-high- Cross, and cause the 
 Clerk to tole his knell : It is the very like case with the 
 Gentleman Angler that goeth to the River for his pleasure : 
 this Angler hath neither judgment, knowledge, nor experi- 
 ence ; he may come home light laden at his pleasure. 
 
 A man that goeth to the River for his pleasure, must 
 understand, when he cometh there, to set forth liis Tackles. 
 The first thing he must do, is to observe the Sun, the 
 Wind, the Moon, the Starres, and the Wanes of the Air ; 
 to set forth his Tackles according to the times and sea- 
 sons ; to goe for his pleasure, and some profit. 
 
 As for example, the Sun proves cloudy ; then must he set 
 forth either his ground Bait or Tackles, and of the brightest 
 of his Flies. If the Sun prove bright, then must lie put 
 on some of the darkest of his flies. Thus must you goe to 
 work with your Flies, light for darkness, and dark for 
 lightness, with the wind in the South, then that blows the 
 Flie in the Trouts mouth. Though I set down the wind 
 JDeing in the South, if the weather be warm, I am indif- 
 ferent where the vvind standeth, either with ground Bait or 
 Menow, so that I can cast my Bait into the River. The 
 very same observations is for night, as for day : For if 
 the Moon prove cleer, or if the Stars glitter in the skie, 
 there is as ill Angling that night, as if it were at high noon 
 in the midst of Summer, when the Sun shineth at the 
 brightest, wherein there is no hopes of pleasure. 
 
 I will begin to Angle for the Trout, with the ground 
 Baits with this quality. 
 
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 The first thing you must gain,e, must be a neat taper Rod, 
 light before, with a tender hazell top, which is very gentle. 
 If you desire to attain my way of Anghng^ (for I have An- 
 gled these forty years) with a single haire of five lengths, 
 one tied to another for the bottom of my Line, and a Line 
 of three haired links for the uppermost part ; and so you 
 may kill the greatest Trout that swims, with Sea-room. 
 
 He that Angles with a Line made of three haired links at 
 the bottom, and more at the top, may kill Fish : but he 
 that Angles with one hair shall kill five Trouts to the others 
 one; for the Trout is very quick sighted ; therefore the best 
 way for night or day, is to keep out of the sight. You 
 must Angle alwayes with the point of your Rod downe the 
 stream ; for a Fish hath not the quickness of sight so 
 perfect up the stream, as opposite against him, observing 
 seasonable times ; as for example, we begin to Angle iu 
 March; If it prove cloudie, you may Angle with the 
 ground Baits all day long : but if it prove bright and cleere, 
 you must take the morning and evening, orelseyouare not 
 like to do any good ; so the times must be observed, and 
 truely understood ; for when an Angler commeth to the 
 River for his pleasure that doth not understand to set forth 
 his Tackles fit for the time, it is as good keep them in 
 the bag, as set them forth. 
 
 I am determined to Angle with the ground Baits and set 
 my Tackles to my Rod, and go to my pleasure : I begin 
 at the uppermost part of the streame, carrying my Line 
 with an upright hand, feeling the Plummet running on the 
 ground some ten inches from the hook, plumming my Line 
 according to the swiftnesse of the stream you Angle in ; 
 for one plummet will not serve for all streams ; for the true 
 Angling is that the plummet runneth on the ground. 
 
 For the Bait. The red knotted worme is very good where 
 Brandlins are not to be had, but Brandlins are better : now 
 that you may bring these Brandlings fit to Angle with, that 
 they may live long* on the hook, which causeth the best 
 sport. When you have gathered your worms out of the 
 dung-hill, you must gaine the greenest Moss you can find, 
 then wash the earth very clean out of it, then provide an 
 earthen pot, so put your Moss into the pot, then put the 
 
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 worms to the Moss into the pot ; within two days you shall 
 find your worms so poor, that if you bait some of tlicm 
 on your hook, you shall see tliat with throwing of them two 
 or three limes into the water, they will dye and grow 
 white : now the skill is, when these worms be gro\vn poor, 
 you must feed them up to make them fat and lusty, that they 
 may live long on the hook ; that is the chiefest point. 
 
 To make them lusty and fat, you must take the yolke 
 of an Egge, some eight or ten spoonfuU of the top of new 
 milk, beaten well together in a Porringer, warm it a little, 
 untill you see it curdle ; then take it off the fire, and set 
 it to coole ; when it is cold, take a spoonful! and drop 
 it upon your Moss into the pot, every drop about the big- 
 nesse of a green Pea, shifting your Moss twice in the week 
 in the Summer, and once in the winter : thus doin^, vou 
 shall feed your wormes fat, and make them lusty, that they 
 will live a long time on the hook ; so you may keep them 
 all the year long. This is my true experience for the ground 
 Baits, for the running Line for the Trout. 
 
 The Angling with a Menow,. called in some places Pencks 
 for a Trout, is a pleasant sport, and killeth the greatest 
 Fish ; he commeth boldly to the Bait, as if it were a Mas- 
 tive Dog at a Beare : you may Angle with greater Tackles, 
 and stronger, and be no prejudice to you in your Angling : 
 a Line made of three silks and three hairs twisted for the 
 uppermost part of the Line, and two silkes and two haires 
 twisted for thebottome next your hook, with a Swivel nigh 
 the middle of your Line, with an indifferent large hook. 
 
 To bait your hook with a Menow, you must putyour hook 
 through the lowermost part of his mouth, so draw your hook 
 tliorow, then put the hook in at the mouth againe, let the 
 point of the hook come out at the hindmost Fin, then 
 draw your Line, and the Menowes mouth will close, that 
 no water will get into its belly ; you must alwayes be Angling 
 with the point of your Rod down the stream, with drawing 
 the Menow up the stream by little and little, ligh the top 
 of the water; the Trout seeing the bait, commeth at it most 
 fiercely, so give a little time before you strike : This is 
 the true way, without Lead ; for many times I have had 
 them come at the Lead and forsake the Menow, so be that 
 
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 tryeth shall prove it in time : let us go to Angling with a 
 Flie, which is a delightful! sport. 
 
 The Rod must be light and tender, if you can fit your- 
 selfe with an Hazell, either of one piece or two set together 
 in the most convenient manner, light and gentle : set your 
 Line to the Rod ; for the uppermost part, you may use 
 your owne discretion ; for the lower part, next your Flie, 
 must be of three or foure haired links. If you can attain 
 to Angle with one haire, you shall have the more rises, 
 and kill more fish ; be sure you doe not over-load yourself 
 with the length of your Line : before you begin to Angle, 
 make a triall, having the winde in your back to see at what 
 length you can cast your Flie, that the Flie light first into 
 the water, and no longer ; for if any of the L'lie falleth 
 into the water before the Flie, it is better unthrowne then 
 throwne ; be sure you be casting alwayes downe the stream, 
 with the Wind behindeyou, and the Sun before; it is a 
 speciall point to have the Sunne and Moon before you ; for 
 the very motion of the Rod drives all the pleasure from 
 you, either by day or night in all your AngHngs, both for 
 Wormesand Flies; so there must bee a great care of that. 
 
 Let us begin to Angle in March with the Flie : If the 
 weather prove Windie, or Cloudie, there are severall kindes 
 of Palmers that are good for that time. 
 
 First, a black Palmer ribbed with silver : the second, a 
 black Pahner with an Orange-tauny body: thirdly, a black 
 Palmer, with the body made all of black : fourthly, a red 
 Palmer ribbed with gold, and a red hackle mixed with 
 Orenge cruel ; these Flies serve all the year long morning 
 and evening, windie and cloudie. Then if the Aire prove 
 bright and cleare, you must imitate the Hau thorn Flie, 
 which is all black and very small, and the smaller the better. 
 In Alay take the May-^ie : imitate that, which is made 
 several! vvayes ; some make them with a shammy body, 
 ribbed with a black haire : another way made with Sandy- 
 Hogges wool!, ribbed with black silke, and winged with a 
 Mallards feather, according to the fancy of the Angler. 
 There is another called theOak-Flie, which is made of Orange 
 colour Cruell and black, with a browne vving; imitate that: 
 Another Flie, the body made with the strain of a Pea> Cocks 
 
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 feather, which is very good in a bright day : The Grasse- 
 hopper which is green imitate that ; the smaller the Flies 
 be made, and of indifferent small hooks, they are the bet- 
 ter* ; these sorts I have set downe, will serve all the year 
 long, observing the times and seasons : Note, the lightest 
 of your Flies for cloudy and darknesse, and the darkest 
 of your Flies for lightnesse, and the rest for indifferent 
 times; that a mans owne Judgement, with some experience 
 and discretion must guide him : If he mean to kill Fish, 
 he must alter his Flies according to these directions. Now, 
 of late, I have found, that Hogs-wooll, of severall colours, 
 makes good grounds ; and the wooll of a red Heyfer makes 
 a good body : And Bears wool makes a good ground ; so I 
 now. work much of them, and itprocuretii very much sport. 
 
 The naturall Flie is sure Angling, and will kill great 
 store of Trouts with much pleasure : As for the May-Flie, 
 3^ou shall have them always playing at the River side, 
 especially against Raine. The Oake-Flie is to bee had on 
 the butt of an Oake, or an Ash, from the beginning of May 
 to the end of August : it is a brownish Flie, and stands 
 alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very 
 easie to be found : The small black Flie is to be had one evry 
 Hawthorn Bush, after the buds be come forth : Your 
 Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be had in any Medow 
 of Grasse in June or July : with these Flies, you must 
 Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait ; 
 the Line must not be so long as the Rod : with drawing 
 your flie, as you finde convenient in your Angling. When 
 you come to deep waters that stand somewhat still, make 
 your Line some two yards long, or thereabout, and dop 
 your Flie behinde a bush, which Angling I have had good 
 sport at ; we call it doping. 
 
 A Lord lately sent to me at Sun going down, to provide 
 him a good dish of Trouts against the next morning by. six of 
 the Clock : I went to the door to see how the wains of the 
 Aire were like to prove, and returned answer, that I doubted 
 not but to be provided (God wilHng) at my time appointed. 
 I went presently to the River, and it proved very dark ; 
 I drew out a Line of three silkes and three hairs twisted for 
 the uppermost part, and a Line of two silks and two 
 
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 hairs twisted for the lowermost part, with a good large 
 hook : I baited my hook with two Lob-worms, the four ends 
 hanging as meet as I could ghesse them in the dark : 1 fell 
 to Angle ; it proved yery dark, tliat I had good sport, 
 Angling with the Lob-worms, as I doe with the Flie, at the 
 top of the water; you shall heare the Fish rise at the top of 
 the water; then you must loose a slack Line down to the 
 bottome, as nigh as you can ghesse, then hold a straight 
 Line ; feeling the Fish bite, give time, there is no doubt of 
 losing the Fish ; for there is not one among twenty, but 
 doth gorge the Bait: the least stroak you can strike to 
 fasten the hook, makes the fish sure, and then you may take 
 the fish up with your hands: The night began to alter and 
 grew somewhat lighter; 1 took off the Lob- worms, and set 
 to my Rod a white Palmer Flie, made of a large hook, 
 I had sport for the time, till it grew lighter ; then I put 
 on my red Palmer, I had sport for the time untill it grew 
 very light ; then I set on my black Palmer, had good sport, 
 made up my dish of fish, put up my Tackles, and was at 
 ihy time appointed for the service. For these three Flies, 
 with the help of the Lob-worms, serve to Angle all the year 
 long, observing the times, as I have shewed in this nights 
 work : a light Flie for darknes, the red Flie in medio, and 
 a dark Flie for lightnesse : This is my experiment for this 
 kind of Angling, which is the surest Angling of all, and 
 killeth the greatest Fish : your Lines may be strong, but 
 must be no longer than the Rod. 
 
 To take a Carp either in Pond or River, if you mean to 
 have sport with some profit, you must take a peck of Ale- 
 graines, and a good quantity of any bloud, and mix the 
 hloud and graines together, and cast it in the places where 
 you meane to Angle ; this feed will gather the scale Fish 
 together, as Carp, Tench, Roach, Dace, and Bream ; the 
 next morning be at your sport very early, plum your ground : 
 you may Angle for the Carp with a strong Line ; the Bait 
 must be either a red knotted worm, or Paste : there is no 
 doubt of sport. 
 
 To take Pearch. The Pearch feeds well, if you light 
 where they be, and bites very free : ]\Iy opinion is, (with 
 5ome experience) to bait with Lob- worms, chopt in pieces 
 
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 over night ; so come in the morning betimes, plum your 
 ground, gage your line, bait your hook with a red knotted 
 worme ; but I hold a Menow better : put the hook in at the 
 back of the Menow, betwixt the fish and the skin, that the 
 Menow may swim up and down alive, being boyed up 
 with a Cork or Quill, that the Menow may have liberty to 
 swim me a foot off the ground : there is no doubt of sport 
 with profit. 
 
 1 will shew, a little, my opinion of floating for scale fish 
 in the River or Pond : The feed brings the Fish together, 
 as the sheep to the Pen : There is nothing better in all 
 your Auiilings, for feed, then Bloud and Grains ; I hold 
 •it better then Paste: then plumming your ground. Angling 
 with fine Tackles, as single haire for halfe the Line next 
 the hook, round and small plumed, according to your float: 
 For tlie Bait, there is a small red worm, with a yellow tip 
 on his taile, is very good ; Brandlins, Gendes, Paste, or 
 Cadice, which we call Cod-bait, they lye in a gravelly 
 husk under stones in the River: these be the speciall Baits 
 for these kinde of Fish, 
 
 One of my name was the best Trouler, for a Pike, in 
 this Realme : he laid a wager, that he would take a Pike 
 of four foot long, of Fish, within the space of one Moneth, 
 w ith his Trouling-Rod ; so he Trouled three weeks and 
 odde days, and took many great Pikes, nigh the length, but 
 did not reach the full length, till widiin the space of three 
 dayes of the time ; then he took one, and won the wager. 
 The manner of his Trouling was, with a Hazell Rod of 
 twdve foot long, with a Ring of Wyrc in the top of his 
 Rod, for his Line to runne tliorow : within two foot of the 
 bottome- of the Rod there was a hole n:iade, for to put in 
 a winde, to lurne with a barrell, to gather up his Line, and 
 loose at his pleasure ; this was his manner of Trouling : 
 But I will pawn my credit, that I will shew a way, either 
 in Maior, Pond, or River, that shall take more Pikes than 
 any Trouler with his Rod : And thus it is. First, take 
 forked stick, a Line of twelve yards long wound upon it, 
 at the upper end, leave about a yard, either to tye a bunch 
 of Sags, or a Bladder, to Boy up the Fish, and to carry it 
 from the ground ; the Bait must be a live Fish, either Dace, 
 
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 or Gudgin, or Roach, or a small Trout : the forked stick 
 must have a slit in the one side of the fork to put in the 
 Line, that you may set your live Fish to swim me at a gage, 
 that when the Pike taketh the Bait, he may have the full 
 liberty of the Line for his feed. 
 
 You may turne these loose, either in Pond or River : 
 in the Pond with the windeallday long, the more the bet- 
 ter : at night set some small weight, as may stay the Boy, 
 as a Ship lyeth at Anchor, till the Fish taketh. For the 
 River, you must turn all loose with the streame ; two or 
 three be sufficient to shew pleasure, gaged at such a depth 
 as they will go currant downe the River ; there is no doubt 
 of sport, if there be Pikes : for the hooks, they must be 
 doubled hooks, the shanks should be somewhat shorter than 
 ordinary : my reason is, the shorter the hook is of the 
 shank, it will hurt the live Fish the lesse, and must be armed 
 with small wyre well softned ; but I hold a hook armed with 
 twisted silk to be better, for it will hurt the live fish least. 
 
 If you arm your hook with wyre, the neeld must be 
 made with a small hook at the one end thereof. If you 
 arme with silke, the neeld must be made with an eye : then 
 must you take one of those Baits alive (which you can get) 
 and with one of your neelds enter within a strawes breath 
 of the Gill of the Fish, so put the neeld betwixt the skin 
 and the Fish ; then pull the neeld out at the hindmost 
 finne, and draw the arming thorow the Fish, until the hook 
 come to lye close to the Fishes bodie : But I hold for those 
 that be armed with wyre to take off the hook, and put the 
 neeld in the hindmost fin and so to come forth at the Gill ; 
 then put on the hook drawn close to the body, 'twill hurt the 
 live Fish the less, so knit the arming with the live Fish to 
 the Line ; then put off either in Maior or Pond, with the 
 winde, in the River with the stream : The more you put 
 off in Maior or Pond, you are like to have the more 
 pleasure : For the River 1 have shewed you before. 
 
 There is a time when Pikes goe a Frogging Ditches, and 
 in the River to Sun them, as in May, June and July, there 
 is a speedy way to take them, and not to misse scarce one 
 in twenty. 
 
 You must take a Line of six or eight foot long, arm a 
 
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 large hook, of the largest size that is made ; arm it to your 
 Line, lead the shank of your hook very handsom, that it 
 may be of such a weight as you may guide the hook at 
 your pleasure : you may strike the Pike, you see, with the 
 bare hook where you please : this Line and hook doth far 
 exceed snaring. 
 
 The principall sport to take a Pike, is to take a Goose 
 or Gander, or Duck : take one of the Pike Lines I have 
 shewed you before : tye the Line under the left wing, and 
 over the right wing, about the body, as a man wearetli 
 his Belt : turne the Goose off into a Pond, where Pikes 
 are, there is no doubt of sport, with great pleasure, betwixt 
 the Goose and the Pihe : It is the greatest sport and 
 pleasure that a noble Gendeman in Shropshire doth give 
 his friends entertainment with. 
 
 The way to make the best paste is, Take, a reasonable 
 quantity of fresh Butter, as much fresh sheeps Suet, a rea- 
 sonable quantity of the strongest Cheese you can get, with 
 the soft of an old stale white loafe ; beat all this in a Mor- 
 ter till it come to perfect paste ; put as much on your hook 
 as a green pease. 
 
 There are many waves to take Eeles : I will shew you 
 a good way to take a dish of Eeles. When you stay a night 
 or two Angling, take four or five Lines, such as be laid for 
 Pikes, of fourteen or fifteen yards long, and at every two 
 yards make a noose, to hang a hook armed either to double 
 thred, or silk twist; for it is better then wyre: Bait your 
 Hooks with Millors-thumbs, Loaches, Menowes, or Gud- 
 gins : tye to every noose a Line baited : these Lines must 
 be laid crosse the River in the deepest places, either with 
 stones, or pegged, so the Line lie in the bottome.of the 
 river, there is no doubt of taking a dish of Eeles ; you 
 must have a small neeld with an eye, to bait your hooks. 
 
 Now to shew how to make Flies : learn to make tv/o 
 Flies, and make all : that is, the Palmer ribbed with silver 
 or gold, and the May-flie : these are the ground of all Flies. 
 
 We will begin to make the Palmer File : You must arme 
 your Line on tiie inside of the hook ; take your Scisers, and 
 cut so much of the brown of the INIallards feather, as in 
 your owne reason shall make the wings, then lay the outmost 
 
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 part of the feather next the hook, and the point of the 
 feather towards the shankeofthe hook, then whip it three 
 or four times about the hook with the same silk you armed 
 the hook : then make your silk fast : then you must take 
 the hackle of the neckof a Cock or Capon, or a Plovers top, 
 which is the best, take off the one side of the feather, then 
 you must take the hackle silk, or cruell, gold or silver thred ; 
 make all these fast at the bent of the hook, then you must 
 begin with Cruell, and Silver, or Gold, and work it up to 
 the wings, every bout shifting your fingers, and making a 
 stop, then the gold will fall right, then make fast : then 
 work up the hackle to the same place, then make the hackle 
 fast : then you must take the hook betwixt your finger and 
 thumb, in the left hand, with a neeld or pin, part the wings 
 in two : then with the arming silk, as you havefastned all 
 hitherto, whip about as it falleth crosse betwixt the wings, 
 then with your thumb you must turne the point of the 
 feather towards the bent of the hook, then work three or four 
 times about the shank, so fasten, then view the proportion. 
 
 For the other Flies : If you make the grounds of Hogs- 
 wooll, sandy, black or white ; or the wooll of a Bear, or of 
 a two year old red Bullock : you must work all these 
 grounds upon a waxed silk, then you must arm and set on 
 the wings, as I have shewed before : For the May-flie, you 
 work the body with some of these grounds, which is very 
 good, ribbed with a black hair ; you may work the body 
 with Cruels, imitating the Colour, or with Silver, with 
 suiting the wings. For the Oak-fiie, you must make him 
 with Orange-tauny and black, for the body, and the brown 
 of the Mallards feather for the wings. If you do after 
 my directions, they will kill fish, observing the times fitting, 
 and follow my former Direcdons. 
 
 If any worthy or honest Angler cannot hit of these my Direc- 
 tions, let him come to me, he shall read and I will work, he 
 shall see all thino^s done according to mv foresaid Directions : 
 So I conclude for the Flie, having shewed you my true Expe- 
 riments, with the Rod, I will set all labouring sports aside : 
 
 And now I am waiting on my Lord with a great Dish 
 of Trouts, who meeting with company, commanded me 
 to turne Scullion, and dresse a Dinner of the Trouts wee 
 
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 had taken : whereupon I gave my Lord this Bill of fare, 
 which I did furnish his Tahle with, according as it was fur- 
 nished with flesh. Trouts in broth, which is restorative: 
 Trouts broyled, cut and filled with sweet Herbes chopt : 
 Trouts calvored hot with Antchovaes sauce : Trouts boyled ; 
 out of which Kettle I make three Dishes ; the one for a 
 Soused Dish, another for a Stew'd Dish, the third for a 
 hot Dish : the Sauce is Butter, Vinegar, beaten Cinamon, 
 with the juyce of a Lemmon, beaten very well together, that 
 the Sauce is white and thick, or else it is no Sauce for a 
 great man's Table : Trouts fryed, which must be done, and 
 not put into the Pan, untill the Suet boyle very high, and 
 kept with stirring all the time they are frying, being flowr'd 
 first. Trouts stew'd : Trouts close, boyled with the cal- 
 vored Trouts, all in one Kettle and the same liquor: Trouts 
 butter'd with Egs : Trouts roasted : Trouts baked : these 
 are for the first course, before the Salt. 
 
 And these are for the latter course. Trouts calvored cold : 
 Trouts flat cold : Baked Trouts: Trouts marilled, that will 
 eat perfect and sweet three moneths in the heat of Summer : 
 if I did say, for the whole year about, I would make it good. 
 
 For the dressing of four or ^ve of the Dishes, I will 
 shew you how I did perform them. 
 
 First, I will shew you for the boyling and calvoring, that 
 serves for hot and cold, for first and latter course. 
 
 First, you must draw out the Intrails of the fish, cutting 
 the fish two or three times in the back ; lay them in a Tray 
 or Platter, put some Vinegar upon them ; you shall see the 
 fish turn sanguine, if they be new, presently : you must put 
 so much water in the Kettle as you thinke will cover them, 
 with a pint of Vinegar, a handfull of Salt, some Rosemary 
 and Thyme and sweet Marjoram tyed in a bunch : then 
 you must make this liquor boyle with a fierce fire made 
 of wood : when the liquor hath boyled very well, put in 
 your fish by one and one, keeping your Hquor alwayes 
 boyling, untill you have put all in : having provided a cover 
 for your Ketde, so put on the cover : you must have a paire 
 of Bellowes to blow up the fire with speed, that the liquor 
 may boyle up to the top of the Ketde; so the fierce boifing 
 will make the Fish to calvor : provided, the fish be new 
 
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 killed : you may let them boile nigh a quarter of an hour ; 
 when they are cold, you may put them in a Tray or 
 earthen Pan, untill you have occasion to use them : be 
 sure they lie covered. 
 
 For your stewed Trouts, you must cut them on the side, 
 as for broiling : there are divers wayes of stewing ; the 
 English hath one way, the French hath another way, the 
 Itafian hath another way : I may speak this ; for I have 
 been admitted into the Kitchins, to furnish men of most 
 Nations, when they have been in England. 
 
 We will begin with the English : He broyleth first upon 
 a Charcoale fire ; the first thing that you must have a care 
 of is, when your Grid-iron is hot you must coole it with 
 ruff Suet, then the skin of your Fish will not break, with 
 care of turning them : when they are nigh broyled, take 
 them off the Grid-iron ; set on a Chafing-dish of coals in 
 a Stew-pan, or Dish ; put in a good quantity of fresh 
 Butter, §0 much Vinegar as will give the relish, a penny- 
 worth of beaten Cinamon ; then put in your broyled fish, 
 and let them stew, about halfe an houre will be sufficient, 
 being turned : adorn your Dish with Sippets, take the fish out 
 of the stew-pan, lay them for the service, be sure to squease 
 a Lemmon on them : I will warrant them good victuall. 
 
 The Italian he stewes upon a Chafing-dish of coals, 
 with white Wine, Cloves, and Mace, Nutmegs sliced, a 
 little Ginger : you must understand when this fish is stewed, 
 the same liquor that the fish is stewed in, must be beaten 
 with some Butter and the juyce of a Lemmon, before it is 
 dish'd for the service. The French doe add to this a slice or 
 two of Bacon. 
 
 I will shew you the way to marrionate a Trout or other 
 fish that will keep a quarter of a yeare in Summer, which 
 is the Italians rarest Dish for fresh fish, and will eat perfect 
 and sweet. 
 
 You must take out the Intrailes as you doe of other fish, 
 and cut them a-crosse the sides, as you do to broyle, washed 
 clean, dried with a cloth, lay them upon a Tray or board, 
 sprinkle a little salt on them, and flowre them as to frie 
 them, so take your Frying-pan with so much Suet, when it 
 is melted, as the Fish may lye to the midside in the liquor, 
 
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 and so fry them ; and every time you turn them, flower 
 them againe, untill you finde the fish fryed sufficient : 
 when you think the fish is fryed, take it out of the Pan, 
 and lay it upon some thing, that the liquor may draine out 
 of it ; when the fish is cold, you may reare it an end. 
 
 You must have a close Vessell to keep this fish and 
 liquor in, that no winde comes in, according to the quantity 
 you make triall of. 
 
 For the Liquor. First, you must take halfe Claret- 
 Wine, the other halfe Vinegar, two or three Bay-leaves, 
 so much Saffron as a Nut tyed in a cloth, with some Cloves 
 and large Mace, some Nutmeg sliced ; boile all these 
 together very well ; when the liquor is cold, and the fish 
 cold, put the fish and liquor into the close Vessell,with three 
 or four Lemmons sliced among the fish ; make all close 
 that no winde can get into the Vessell ; after eight or ten 
 days you may begin to eat of this fish ; the Sauce must be 
 some of the same liquor, with some of a sliced Lemmon. 
 
 To dresse a Pike, 
 
 When the Pike cometh into the Kitchin, kill it ; then 
 take a handfull of Salt, with water, and rub the fish very 
 well to take the slime off, draw out the Intrailes; wash 
 the Pike cleane, put a handfull of Salt in the Pikes Belly; 
 then take so much water, with a pinte of Vinegar : if the 
 Pike be any thing large, you must put in at least three 
 handfull of Salt, with a bunch of Rosemary, Thyme, and 
 sweet Marjoram, and two or three green Onyons ; boyle 
 your liquor very well with a high fire made of wood ; then 
 put in your Pike, cover your Kettle, with your Bellows 
 keep your Kettle boiling verie high for the space of halfe 
 an houre or thereabouts : a Pike asketh great boiling r 
 for the sauce, it is sweet Butter well beaten with some of 
 the top of the same liquor, with two or three Antchovaes, 
 the skin taken off, and the bones taken out, a little Vinegar, 
 so garnish your Dish : when your Pike is Dished, take 
 the juyce of a Lemmon, and put on the top of the fish : 
 there is no doubt but it is good victuall. 
 
 I could set downe as many ways to dress Eeles, as 
 would furnish a Lords Table : but I will relate but one. 
 
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 Take off the skinne whole, till you come within two 
 inches of the taile, beginning at the head : take out the 
 Intrailes, wash theEele cleane, drie it with a cloth, scotch 
 it all along both the sides ; take some Pepper and Salt, 
 mixe them together, rub the Eele well with the Pepper, 
 and Salt ; draw the skinne on againe whole ; tye the skinne 
 about tlie head with a litde thred lapped round, broyled 
 on a Charcoale fire, let your Grid-iron be hot, rub your 
 Grid-iron with some ruffe Suet; the skinne will not burne; 
 this is good ; but take the skin off, and stew the Eele 
 betwixt two Dishes, on a Chafing-dish of Coals, with sweet 
 Butter, Vinegar, and beaten Cinnamon, they will be better. 
 
 The boyling of a Carp is the very same way as I have 
 shewed for the Trout, the scales on : no better Sauce can 
 be made than the Antchovaes Sauce. The high- boyling 
 is the way for all fresh-water Fish : I have served seven 
 times seven years, to see the experiment. 
 
 If there be any Gentleman that liveth adjoyning to a 
 River side, where Trouts are ; I will shew the way to 
 bring them to feed, that he may see them at his pleasure ; 
 and to bring store to the place. Gather great Garden- 
 Wormes, the quantity of a pinte, or a quarte, chop them 
 in pieces, and throw them where you intend to have your 
 pleasure ; with feeding often, there is no doubt of their 
 comming ; they will come as Sheep to the Pen : you 
 must begin to feed with peeces of worms, by hand, by 
 one and one, untill you see them eat ; then 3'ou may feed 
 with Liver or Lights, so your desire will be effected. 
 And thus I conclude this short Treatise. 
 
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