If after having made the signal to prepare to form the line of battle, or either line of bearing, the admiral, keeping the preparative flag flying, should make several signals in succession to point out the manner in which the line is to be formed, those signals are to be carefully written down, that they may be carried into execution, when the signal for the line is hoisted again.

They are to be executed in the order in which they are made, excepting such as the admiral may annul previously to his again hoisting the signal for the line.
X.If the wind should come _forward_ when the fleet is formed in line of battle, or is sailing by the wind on a line of bearing, the leading ship is to steer seven points from the wind, and every ship is to haul as close to the wind as possible till she has got into the wake of the leading ship, or till she shall have brought it on the proper point of bearing; but if the wind should come _aft_, the ships are to bear up until they get into the wake, or on the proper point of bearing from the leading ship.
XI.

Ships which have been detached from the body of the fleet on any separate service are not to obey the signal for forming the line of battle unless they have been previously called back to the fleet by signal.
XII.

Ships which cannot keep their stations are to quit the line, as directed in Article XIX.

in the General Instructions, though in the presence of an enemy.