So that these would be the orders under which Blake conducted his famous campaign in the Mediterranean, Penn and Venables captured Jamaica, and the whole of Cromwell's Spanish war was fought.
FOOTNOTES: [1] _Hist.MSS.

Com._ XIII.ii.85.It is from a transcript of this copy made for Dr.Gardiner that I have been permitted to take the text below.
A set of 'Instructions for the better ordering of the fleet in Sailing' accompanies them.
[2] _British Museum, Shane MSS._ 3232, f.

81.
[3] The Sloane copy is not quite identical with that in the Portland MSS.

The variations, however, are merely verbal and in a few signals, and are of such a nature as to be accounted for by careless transcription.
[4] Hoste, the author of the first great treatise on Naval Tactics, quotes Tromp's formation as a typical method of retreat; but his account is vitiated by what seems a curious mistake.

He says: 'Il rangea son armee en demi-lune et il mit son convoi au milieu: c'est a dire que son vaisseau faisait au vent l'angle obtus de la demi-lune, et les autres s'etendoient de part (_sic_) et d'autre _sur les deux lignes du plus- pres_ pour former les faces de la demi-lune qui couvroient le convoi.