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And wheresoever we shall find cause to land, no man shall force any woman be she Christian or heathen, upon pain of death. FOOTNOTES: [1] The articles marked with an asterisk do not appear in the Gorges set, and were presumably those which Ralegh added to suit the conditions of his expedition or which he borrowed from other precedents. [2] Cape Finisterre. [3] Cape St.Vincent. [4] MS.
Cape Devert. [5] MS.
'loofe.' [6] Corporal of the field meant the equivalent of an A.D.C.or orderly. [7] This appears to be the first known mention of a court-martial being provided for officially at sea. [8] This passage is corrupt in the MS.
and is restored from Wimbledon's Article 32, _post_, p.
58. [9] This was the Spanish practice.
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