36, where Ralegh's special articles relating to landing in Guiana begin.

Ralegh's important twenty-ninth article dealing with the method of attack is practically identical with that of Gorges.

Ralegh, however, has several articles which are not in Gorges's set, and wherever the two sets are not word for word the same, Ralegh's is the fuller, having been to all appearances expanded from Gorges's precedent.

This, coupled with the fact that other corrections beside those of the prayer article are embodied in Ralegh's articles, leaves practically no doubt that Gorges's set was the earlier and the precedent upon which Ralegh's was based.
An apparent difficulty in the date of Gorges's treatise need not detain us.

It was dedicated on March 16, 1618-9, to Buckingham, the new lord high admiral, but it bears indication of having been written earlier, and in any case the date of the dedication is no guide to the date of the orders in the Appendix.
The important question is, how much earlier than Ralegh's are these orders of Gorges's treatise?
Can we approximately fix their date?
Certainly not with any degree of precision, but nevertheless we are not quite without light.