The Hamburgh factor may be a ship, or a horse--be bound to Hamburgh or London.

What shall be dispatched may be one thing, or any thing, or every thing, in a former letter.

No ships since the 11th, may be no ships come in, or no ships gone out.

The London fleet being in the roads, it may be the London fleet from Hull to London, or from London to Hull, both being often at sea together.

The roads may be Yarmouth roads, or Grimsby, or, indeed, any where.
By such a way of writing, no orders can be binding to him that gives them, or to him they are given to.