A----l L----k's Rejoinder to A----l M----ws's Replies' in a pamphlet entitled _Original Letters and Papers between Adm----l M----ws and V.Adm----l L----k_.

London, 1744, p.31.From an undated copy of Fighting Instructions in the Admiralty Library we know that this addition was subsequently incorporated into the standing form.
[2] The instructions of 1744, as quoted in the Mathews-Lestock controversy, add here the words 'and strictly to take care not to fire before the signal be given by the admiral.' This appears also to have been an addition made by Mathews in 1744.

It was clumsily incorporated in the subsequent standing form thus: 'to engage the enemy and on no account to fire before the admiral shall make the signal, in the order the admiral has prescribed unto them.' See note to Article I., _supra._ THE PERMANENT INSTRUCTIONS, 1703-1783 INTRODUCTORY These like Russell's are extracted from a complete printed set, also presented to the United Service Institution by Sir W.Laird Clowes, and entitled, 'Instructions for the directing and governing her majesty's fleet in sailing and fighting, by the Right Honourable Sir George Rooke, Knight, Vice-Admiral of England, and admiral and commander-in-chief of her majesty's fleet.

In the year 1703.' They also contain all the other matter as in Russell's, while another copy has bound with it all the fleet articles of war under the hand of Prince George of Denmark, then lord high admiral.
As they were not issued till 1703, the second year of the war, in which Rooke did nothing but carry out a barren cruise in the Bay of Biscay, we may assume that the Cadiz expedition of 1702 proceeded under Russell's old instructions of the previous war.

It was under Rooke's new instructions, however, that the battle of Malaga was fought in 1704.