To begin with there is the harsh punishment for not attending prayers, which is thoroughly characteristic of Tudor times.

Then there is an article, which Ralegh omits, relating to the use of 'musket-arrows.' Gorges's article runs: 'If musket-arrows be used, to have great regard that they use not but half the ordinary charge of powder, otherwise more powder will make the arrow fly double.' Now these arrows we know to have been in high favour for their power of penetrating musket-proof defences about the time of the Armada.

They were a purely English device, and were taken by Richard Hawkins upon his voyage to the South Sea in 1593.

He highly commends them, but nevertheless they appear to have fallen out of fashion, and no trace of their use in Jacobean times has been found.[6] A still more suggestive indication exists in the heading which is prefixed to Gorges's Appendix.

It runs as follows:--'A form of orders and directions to be given by an admiral in conducting a fleet through the Narrow Seas for the better keeping together or relieving one another upon any occasion of distress or separation by weather or by giving chase.