For if, according to this instruction, when you have got the wind you are to press the enemy, then those ships which are on each side of them shall receive more than equal damages from each other's shot if near, and in case the enemy but observed the seventh instruction--that is, to tack with equal numbers with you--then is your fleet divided and not the enemy's.
[3] The _Admiralty MS._ here inserts an additional instruction, numbered 5, as follows: 'If in time of fight any flagship or squadron ahead of the fleet hath an opportunity of weathering any of the enemy's ships, they shall put abroad the same signal the general makes them for tacking, which, if the general would have them go about, he will answer by giving the same again, otherwise they are to continue on the same line or station.' _Observation_.--'For it may prove not convenient in some cases to break the line.' [4] The _Admiralty MS._ adds, 'And as soon as they have the wind to observe what other signals the general makes; and in case they lose sight of the general, they are to endeavour to press the headmost ships of the enemy all they can, or assist any of ours that are annoyed by them.' The whole makes Instruction VI.

of the _Admiralty MS._ An _Observation_ is attached to the old instruction as follows:--'This signal was wanting in the battle fought 11th August, 1673.

The fourth squadron followed this instruction and got the wind of the enemy about four in the afternoon, and kept the wind for want of another signal to bear down upon the enemy, as Monsieur d'Estrees alleged at the council of war the next day.

For want of this the enemy left only five or six ships to attend their motion, and pressed the other squadrons of ours to such a degree they were forced to give way.' _Cf._ note, p.

181.
[5] The _Admiralty MS._ makes of the three paragraphs of this instruction three separate instructions, numbered 7, 9, and 10, and inserts after the first paragraph a new instruction numbered 8, with an _Observation_ appended.