have such Letters of Marque or Commission, as
aforesaid, shall use their best Endeavours to give aid and Succour to
all such Ship or Ships, and shall to the utmost of their power Labour
to free the same from the Enemy.

IX. That Our Subjects and all other Persons whatsoever, who shall
either in their own persons serve, or bear any Charge or Adventure, or
in any sort further or set forward the said Adventure, according to
these Articles, shall stand and be freed by vertue of the said
Commission; and that no person be in any wise reputed or challenged
for an offender, against Our Laws, but shall be freed, under Our
Protection, of and from all Trouble and Vexation that might in any
wise grow thereby, in the same manner as any other Our said Subjects
ought to be by Law, in their Aiding or Assisting Us, either in their
own persons, or otherwise, in a Lawful War against Our declared
Enemies.

X. That the said Commanders of such Merchant Ships and Vessells or
their Owners or Agents before the taking out Commissions, shall give
Notice in Writing, Subscribed with their hands, to Our High Admiral of
Great Britain, for the Time being, or Our Commissioners for Executing
the Office of Our High Admiral or the Commissioners for Executing that
Office for the Time being, or the Lieutenant or Judge of the said High
Court of Admiralty, or his Surrogate, of the Name of their Ship, and
of the Tunnage and Burthen, and the Names of the Captain, Owners or
Setters out of the said Ship, with the Number of Men, and the Names of
the Officers in her, and for what Time they are Victualled, as also of
their Ordnance, Furniture and Ammunition; To the End the same may be
Registered in the said Court of Admiralty.

XI. That those Commanders of such Merchant Ships and Vessels, who
shall have such Letters of Marque or Commissions as aforesaid, shall
hold and keep, and are hereby Enjoyn'd to hold and keep a
Correspondence, by all Conveniences, and upon all occasions, from Time
to Time, with Our High Admiral of Great Britain for the Time being, or
Our Commissioners for Executing the Office of Our High Admiral, or the
Commissioners for Executing that office for the Time being, or their
Secretary, so as from Time to Time to render and give unto him or them
not only an account and Intelligence of their Captures or Proceedings
by vertue of such their said Letters of Marque, or Commissions as
aforesaid; but also of whatsoever else shall Occur unto them, or be