This Act to continue before the next
Parliament, which hath reuiued the same, vntill his (yet not knowne)
succeeder.
The Pilcherd are pursued and deuoured by a bigger kinde of fish,
called a Plusher, being somewhat like the Dog-fish, who leapeth now
and then aboue water, and therethrough bewrayeth them to the Balker:
so are they likewise persecuted by the Tonny, and he (though not
verie often) taken with them damage faisant. And that they may no
lesse in fortune, then in fashion, resemble the Flying fish, certaine
birds called Gannets, soare ouer, and stoup to prey vpon them.
Lastly, they are persecuted by the Hakes, who (not long sithence)
haunted the coast in great abundance; but now being depriued of their
wonted baite, are much diminished, verifying the prouerb, What we
lose in Hake, we shall haue in Herring. These Hakes and diuers of
the other forerecited, are taken with threds, & some of them with the
boulter, which is a Spiller of a bigger size. Vpon the North coast,
where want of good harbours denieth safe road to the fisherboats,
they haue a deuice of two sticks filled with corks, and crossed
flatlong, out of whose midst there riseth a thred, and at the same
hangeth a saile; to this engine, termed a Lestercock, they tie one
end of their Boulter, so as the wind comming from the shore, filleth
the sayle, and the saile carrieth out the Boulter into the sea, which
after the respite of some houres, is drawne in againe [35] by a cord
fastned at the neerer end.
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