discovered or declared unto them, or found out by them, by Examination
of, or Conference with, any mariners or Passengers, of or in the Ships
or Vessells taken, or by any other ways or means whatsoever, touching
or concerning the designs of the Enemy, or any of their Fleets, Ships,
Vessells or Parties; and of the Stations, Seas, Ports and Places and
of their Intents therein; and of what Merchant Ships or Vessells of
the Enemy, bound out or Home, as they shall hear of; and of what else
Material in these Cases may arrive to their knowledge, to the End such
Course may be thereupon taken, and such Orders given as may be
requisite.

XII. That no Commander of a Merchant Ship or Vessel who shall have a
Letter of Marque or Commission as aforesaid, shall presume, as they
will answer it at their Peril, to wear any Jack, Pendant or any other
Ensign or Colour, Usually born by Our Ships, but that besides the
Colours born Usually by Merchant Ships, they do wear a Red Jack with
the Union Jack described in the Canton at the Upper Corner thereof
near the Staff,[5] and that One third part of the whole Company of
every such Ship or Vessel so fitted out as aforesaid shall be Land
Men.

[Footnote 5: Like the present red flag of the British merchant
marine.]

XIII. That such Commanders of Merchant Ships and Vessels who shall
Obtain such Letters of Marque or Commissions, as aforesaid, shall also
from Time to Time, upon due Notice being given them, observe all such
other Instructions and Orders as We shall think fit to direct for the
better carrying on of this Service.

XIV. That all Persons who shall Violate these Instructions shall be
severely punished, and also required to make full Repairation to
Persons Injured contrary to these Instructions for all Damages they
shall sustain by any Capture, Embezilment Demurrage or otherwise.

XV. That before any such Letters of Marque or Commissions issue under
Seal, Bail with Sureties shall be given before the Lieutenant and
Judge of Our High Court of Admiralty of England, or his Surrogate, in
the Sum of Three thousand Pounds Sterling, if the Ship carries above
One hundred and fifty Men; and if a Lesser Number, in the Sum of
Fifteen hundred pounds Sterling; Which Bail shall be to the Effect,
and in the form following:

Which Day, Time and Place Personally Appeared ---- Who
submitting themselves to the Jurisdiction of the High Court
of Admiralty of England, Obliged themselves, t