If the general hoist up a white flag on the mizen yard-arm or topmast-head, all small frigates in his squadron are to come under his stern for orders.
Inst.14th.That if any engagement by day shall continue till night and the general shall please to anchor, then upon signal given they all anchor in as good order as may be, the signal being as in the 'Instructions for Sailing'; and if the general please to retreat without anchoring, the signal to be firing two guns, the one so nigh the other as the report may be distinguished, and within three minutes after to do the like with two guns more.
Given under our hands at Portsmouth, this March 29th, 1653.
ROBERT BLAKE.
RICHARD DEANE.
GEORGE MONCK.
FOOTNOTES: [1] Re-issued in March 1654, by Blake, Monck, Disbrowe, and Penn, with some amendments and verbal alterations.

As reissued they are in _Sloane MSS._ 3232, f.

81, and printed in Granville Penn's _Memorials of Sir William Penn_, ii.76.All the important amendments in the new edition, apart from mere verbal alterations, are given below in notes to the articles in which they occur.
[2] '_Waft_ (more correctly written _wheft_).

It is any flag or ensign stopped together at the head and middle portion, slightly rolled up lengthwise, and hoisted at different positions at the after-part of a ship.'-- Admiral Smyth (_Sailors' Word-Book_).
[3] The orders of 1654 have 'one frigate.' [4] _I.e._ 'formation.' [5] 1654, 'enemy's ships.' [6] 1654, 'get.' [7] 1654, 'or the commander-in-chief.' [8] 1654, 'immediately.' [9] 1654, 'so as she is in danger of being sunk or taken, then they.' [10] 1654, 'to keep on close in a line.' [11] 1654, 'mizen topmast-head.' [12] 1654, 'or grain upon pain of severe punishment.' Nothing is more curious in naval phraseology than the loss of this excellent word 'grain,' or 'grayne,' to express the opposite of 'wake.' To come into a ship's grain meant to take station ahead of her.

There is nothing now which exactly supplies its place, and yet it has long fallen into oblivion, so long, indeed, that its existence was unknown to the learned editors of the new _Oxford Dictionary_.