the merchant or some other person learned in other ships, and the Bible to be read devoutly and Christianly to God's honour.
Every officer is to be charged by inventory with the particulars of his charge, and to render a perfect account of the defraying of the same together with modest and temperate dispending of powder, shot, and use of all kind of artillery, which is not to be misused, but diligently to be preserved for the necessary defence of the fleet and voyage.
No liquor to be spilt on the ballast, nor filthiness to be left within board: the cook room, and all other places to be kept clean for the better health of the company, the pages to be brought up according to the laudable order and use of the sea, as well in learning of navigation, as in exercising of that which to them appertaineth.
The sick to be tended, comforted and holpen in the time of his infirmity, and every manner of person, without respect, to bear another's burden.
If any person shall fortune to die in the voyage, such apparel and other goods as he shall have at the time of his death, is to be kept, and an inventory made, and conserved to the use of his wife, and children, or otherwise according to his mind and will, and the day of his death to be entered in the books: to the intent it may be known what wages he shall have deserved to his death.
Not to disclose to any nation the state of our religion, but to pass it over in silence, without any declaration of it, seeming to bear with such laws and rites, as the place hath, where you shall arrive.
For as much as our people, and ships may appear unto them strange and wondrous, and theirs also to ours: it is to be con- sidered how they may be used, learning much of their natures and dispositions, by some one such person, as you may first either allure, or take to be brought aboard your ships, and there to learn as you may, without violence or force, and no woman to be tempted, or entreated to incontinency, or dishonesty.
The person so taken, to be well entertained, used and ap- parelled, to be set on land, to the intent that he or she may allure other to draw nigh to show the commodities: and if the person