More probably they were Boscawen's own, for, strictly speaking, they should not appear as 'Additional Fighting Instructions' at all.

From the series of signal books and other sources we know there already existed a special set of 'Chasing Instructions,' and yet another set in which officers' calls and the like were dealt with, and both of Boscawen's articles were subsequently incorporated into these sets.

The printed articles to which Boscawen attached them were certainly not new.

Either wholly or in part they had been used by Byng in 1756, for at his court-martial he referred to the 'First article of the Additional Fighting Instructions as given to the fleet by me at the beginning of the expedition,' and this article is identical with No.

1 of Boscawen's set.
How much older the articles were, or, indeed, whether any were issued before the Seven Years' War, has never yet been determined.