III.
No Perſon to Game at Cards or Dice for Money.
IV.
The Lights and Candles to be put out at eight o’Clock at Night: If any of the Crew, after that Hour, ſtill remained inclined for Drinking, they were to do it on the open Deck;
which Roberts believed would give a Check to their Debauches, for he was a ſober Man himſelf, but found at length, that all his Endeavours to put an End to this Debauch, proved ineffectual.
V.
To keep their Piece, Piſtols, and Cutlaſh clean, and fit for Service:
In this they were extravagantly nice, endeavouring to outdo one another, in the Beauty and Richneſs of their Arms, giving ſometimes at an Auction (at the Maſt,) 30 or 40 l. a Pair, for Piſtols. Theſe were ſlung in Time of Service, with different coloured Ribbands, over their Shoulders, in a Way peculiar to theſe Fellows, in which they took great Delight.
VI.
No Boy or Woman to be allowed amongſt them. If any Man were found ſeducing anny of the latter Sex, and carried her to Sea, diſguiſed, he was to ſuffer Death;
ſo that when any fell into their Hands, as it chanced in the Onſlow, they put a Centinel immediately over her to prevent ill Conſequences from ſo dangerous an Inſtrument of Diviſion and Quarrel; but then here lies the Roguery; they contend who ſhall be Centinel, which happens generally to one of the
