10.  Not to endanger one another.[4]

11.  The small craft to attend the motion of the enemy’s fireships.[4]

12.  A white flag on the mizen yard-arm or topmast-head, all the small frigates of the admiral’s squadron.[4]

13.  To retreat, four guns.[4]

14.  None to fire guns till within distance.[5]

15.  For the larboard and starboard tacks.[6]

16.  To keep the line.[7]

17.  If we have the wind of the enemy.[7]

18.  If the enemy have the wind of us.[7]

19.  The distance of each ship in time of fight.[8]

20.  Not to pursue any small number of enemy’s ships.[9]

21.  For leaving chase.[9]

22.  If any ship be disabled in fight.[9]

23.  The van of the fleet to tack first.[9]

24.  The rear of the fleet to tack first.[9]

25.  To fall into the order of battle.[10]

26.  To make sail.[10]

JAMES.

By command of his royal highness.

M. WREN.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] This set of orders has marginal rubrics indicating the contents of each article, and where the article does not differ from the orders of 1665 I have given the rubric only in the text.

[2] Identical with corresponding article of April 10, 1665.

[3] Same as corresponding article of April 10, 1665.  Article 10 of those instructions relating to ’not staying to take possession of disabled ships’ is here omitted.

[4] These four articles are identical with 11, 12, 13 and 14 of April 10, 1665.

[5] Same as Article 16 of April 10, 1665.

[6] Same as Article 15 of April 10, 1665.

[7] These three articles are the same as 1, 2, and 3, of ’Additional Instructions’ of April 18, 1665.  The complete set used by Monck and Rupert in 1666 must have been numbered as above.

[8] Same as 4 and 5 of ‘Additional Instructions,’ April 18,1665.

[9] These five articles are the same as 6 to 10 of the ’Additional Instructions,’ April 18, 1665.

[10] These two articles are the same as the two ’Additional Instructions’ of April 27, 1665.

THE DUKE OF YORK’S SUPPLEMENTARY ORDERS, 1672.

[+Spragge’s Second Sea Book.  Dartmouth MSS.+]

Further Instructions for Fighting.

1.  To keep the enemy to leeward.

In case we have the wind of the enemy, and that the enemy stands towards us and we towards them, then the van of our fleet shall keep the wind, and when the rear comes[1] to a convenient distance of the enemy’s rear shall stay until our whole line is come up within the same distance of the enemy’s van, and then our whole line is to stand along with them the same tacks on board, still keeping the enemy to leeward, and not suffering them to tack in the van, and in case the enemy tack in the rear first, then he that leads the van of our fleet is to tack first, and the whole line is to follow, standing all along with the same tacks on board as the enemy does.