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Naval Expeditions , &c of the English,

* s have our Subjects wasted, or hazard-" ed in any Foreign Actions.

“ And if you shall have the'Good" Fortune so to destroy the said Ships," and the Staples and Magazines of thest Naval Provisions, in any Port, which" We charge you sliall be first attempt^" ed, before any other Service, exceptft such as We Charge you shall be fortr your own Defence, and that the said" Destruction of Ships sliall be, whereany Town is belonging to any such“ Port that hath great Riches, and that" you sliall probably understand that" the said Town is not able to defend" itself against you, and that the Riches" thereof is not wholly carried away in-" to the Inlands, where you cannot re-" cover the fame, in such Cafe, you" may attempt the taking of such a" Town, and possess yourselves of the" Riches thereof, so as such Attempt" may first, by good Deliberation of" Counsel, be found sperable to be at-tchieved, without hazfirding eitherof your own Lives, or the Lives ofOur Subjects, serving under you;" For otherwise We charge you both," jointly and severally, not to attemptts any such doubtful Action, in Hopes" of Gain, to the manifest Danger ofthe Lives of Our Subjects. And, in the" Execution hereof — You sliall take," Order, that no Slaughter be made ofany People, except they shall, with" Force, withstand you, and put Our" Subjects Lives in manifest Danger." But absolutely We forbid the Slaugh-ter of any Women, Children, and“ aged Men, not able to bear Arms.

tr And for the Riches that may be<f there found, you sliall give also strict" Order, to have as much saved as pos-" sibly may be, towards some Recom-" pence of the great Charges sustained,“■ both by Us and by yourselves, and,c sundry of your Company, whom We" think worthy to be remembred in" convenient Measure, according to" their Charges. For which Purpose,,e We will, that you authorize underyour Hand in Writing.

to take the Care and Charge" to enquire, by all good Means thattc you may give them, what Goods of" any Value sliall be by any that sliall<c serve in this Voyage, taken, either" upon the Seas, or in any Port, or intf any Magazine, or in any Port-Town," that you sliall enter into, and of the

" fame to make due Registers in Writ-" ting, containing the Nature of the-‘lo Goods taken, the Names of the Ta-^ kers, the Time, Person and Place,V where the same was taken, and upon" Knowledge thereof, theesajd - - - --

" shall take into their Custody the lame" Goods,or commit such of the same as■ e - sliall be of any Bulk ro be securely" kept, in such Ships, as by your Dii-" cretion sliall be therefore appointed,<e so as hereby also the Takers may be

therewith rewarded, as Reason sliall" require.

" Now, for the better and more or-" derly Execution of this your Com-" mislion, and ol these former Articles,“ comprised in these our Instructions,(t We do ordain,that there sliall be two‘- Persons, serving for the Seas, and" two that are appointed to serve withef the Forces for Land Service, to be as" Counfellours to you in Our Name," that is, the Lord Thomas Howard" and Sir Walter Raleigh , and Sir Fra.“ Vere, and Sir Comers Clifford ; And

to these four, We do add Sir George" Carew, Lieutenant of Our Ordnance,<( to make the Number of five, whom" also We charge, by these Presents," that they will, as they will answer" before God, give their Counsels to" you both, without any private Re-ff spect to either of you, for Love or" Fear, in all Actions, to be put in“ Question, or taken in Hand, and thetf fame deliberately to debate, as the" Weight of the Matter sliall require," before that any Resolution be made," and before the putting of the Matter" in Action.

“ And if you, the two Generals,sliall" differ in your several Opinions, and

that the more Part of the aforesaid" five Counfellours sliall assent to the O-“ pinion of any one of you, then, We" sliall allow to have that Opinion fol-“ lowed by the others, as by Advice" found most probable.

" And if such of you two, or five, aste sliall dissent from the fame, notwith-" standing the Opinion of the more<s Part, sliall not by Persuasion be mo-tC ved to consent thereto, and yet sliall" have any two of the said Counsellors<e concur with him, if th— sliall beexe-“ Luted with any Number of Our Sub-" jects, with Force of Arms, whereby" their Lives may be in Danger, then," considering the Doubtfulness in the

" Deliberation,