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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 3
9. Item, the steward and cook of every ship, and their associates, to give and render
to the captain and other head officers of their ship weekly (or oftener if it shall seem
requisite), a just or plain and perfect account of expenses of the victuals, as well flefh,
fish, biscuit, meat or bread, as also of beer, wine, oil or vinegar, and all other kind of
victualling under their charge, and they, and every of them, so to order and dispend
the same, that no waste or unprofitable excess be made otherwise than reason and neces-
sity shall command.
10. Item, when any inferior or mean officer, of what degree or condition he shall
be, shall be tried untrue, remiss, negligent, or unprofitable in or about his office in the
voyage, or not to use himself in his charge accordingly, then every such officer to be
punished or removed at the discretion of the captain and assistants, or the most part of
them, and the person so removed not to be reputed, accepted, or taken from the time
of his remove any more for an officer, but to remain in such condition and place as he
shall be assigned unto, and none of the company to resist such chastisement or worthy
punishment as shall be ministered to him moderately, according to the fault or desert of
his offence, after the laws and common customs of the seas, in such cases heretofore
used and observed.
11. Item, if any mariner or officer inferior shall be found by his labour not meet nor
worthy the place that he is presently shipped for, such person may be unshipped and put
on land at any place within the king’s majesty’s realm and dominion, and one other person
more able and worthy to be put in his place, at the discretion of the captain and matters,
and order to be taken that the party dismissed shall be allowed proportionably the value
of that he shall have deserved to the time of his dismission or discharge, and he to give
order with sureties, pawn, or other assurance, to repay the overplus of that he shall have
received, which he shall not have deserved, and such wages to be made with the party
newly placed as shall be thought reasonable, and he to have the furniture of all such
necessaries as were prepared for the party dismissed, according to right and conscience.
12. Item, that no blaspheming of God, or detestable swearing, be used in any ship,
nor communication of ribaldry, filthy tales, or ungodly talk, to be suffered in the com-
pany of any ship, neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other devilish games to be fre-
quented, whereby ensueth not only poverty to the players, but also strife, variance,
brawling, fighting, and oftentimes murder, to the utter destruction of the parties, and
provoking of God’s most just wrath and sword of vengeance. ‘These and all such like
pestilences, and contagions of vices and sins to be eschewed, and the offenders once mo-
nished, and not reforming, to be punished at the discretion of the captain and master, as
appertaineth.
13. Item, that morning and evening prayer, with other common services appointed
by the king’s majesty and laws of this realm, to be read and said in every ship daily by
the minister in the admiral, and the merchant or some other person learned in other
ships, and the Bible or paraphrases to be read devoutly and christianly, to God’s honour,
and for his grace to be obtained and had by humble and hearty prayer of the navi-
gants accordingly.
14. Item, that 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, together with due keeping of all instruments of your navigation, and other
requisites.
Bez 15. Item,
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