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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART 1
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Harleian MSS.

309, fol.

42, et seq.+[1]] [_Extract_.] If they meet with the enemy the admiral must apply to get the wind of the enemy by all the means he can, for that is the advantage.

No private captain should board the admiral enemy but the admiral of the English, except he cannot come to the enemy's, as the matter may so fall out without they both the one seek the other.

And if they chase the enemy let them that chase shoot no ordnance till he be ready to board him, for that will let[2] his ship's way.
Let every ship match equally as near as they can, and leave some pinnaces at liberty to help the overmatched.


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