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vineger, and all other kinde of victualling under their 



charge, and they, and every of them so to order and 

 dispende the same, that no waste or unprofitable excesse 

 be made otherwise then reason and necessitie shall 

 command. 



10 Item, when any inferiour or meane officer of what 

 degree or condition he shalbe, shalbe tried untrue, re- 

 misse, negligent, or unprofitable in or about his office in 

 the voyage, or not to use him selfe in his charge 

 accordingly, then every such officer to be punished or 

 removed at the discretion of the captaine 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 remaine in 

 such condition and place, as hee shall be assigned unto, 

 and none of the companie, to resist such chastisement 

 or worthie punishment, as shalbe ministred unto him 

 moderately, according to the fault or desert of his 

 offence, after the lawes and common customes of the 

 seas, in such cases heretofore used and observed. 



1 1 Item, if any Mariner or officer inferiour shalbe 

 found by his labour not meete nor worthie the place 

 that he is presently shipped for, such person may bee 

 unshipped and put on lande at any place within the kings 

 Majesties realme & dominion, and one other person more 

 able and worthy to be put in his place, at the discretion of 

 the captaine and masters, & order to be taken that the 

 partie dismissed shalbe allowed proportionably the value 

 of that he shall have deserved to the time of his dis- 

 mission or discharge, & 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, 

 & such wages to be made with the partie newly placed as 

 shalbe thought reasonable, and he to have the furniture 

 of al such necessaries as were prepared for the partie 

 dismissed, according to right and conscience. 



12 Item, that no blaspheming of God, or detestable 

 swearing be used in any ship, nor communication of 



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