For matter of sailing or discipline at sea if there be cause you shall receive other directions, to which I refer you.
Likewise it is ordered between the seamen and the landmen that after the captain of the ship is cabined, he shall if possible lodge the captain of the foot in the same cabin, after the master of the ship is cabined the lieutenant, and after the master's mates the ensign.
FOOTNOTES: [1] MS.

'if any suspected persons be in that office,' &c.
[2] This is the first known occasion of red, blue and white flags being used to distinguish squadrons, though the idea was apparently suggested in Elizabeth's time.

See _Navy Records Society, Miscellany_, i.p.

30.
[3] MS.

has 'to the leading ships as after their broadside,' &c.
[4] MS.