In this book, in which 1783 is the last date mentioned, there is inserted beside each signal the number of the article in the printed Fighting Instructions to which it related.

In this way we are able to fix the purport of some twenty articles, and all of these correspond exactly both in intention and number with those of 1703.
FOOTNOTE: [1] See below, p.

224.
_SIR GEORGE ROOKE_, 1703.
[+From a printed copy in the Library of the United Service Institution+.] Articles I.to XVI .-- [_The same as Russell's of_ 1691, _except for slight modifications of wording and signals_.][1] Art.

XVII .-- If the admiral see the enemy's fleet standing towards him and he has the wind of them, the van of the fleet is to make sail till they come the length of the enemy's rear and our rear abreast of the enemy's van; then he that is in the rear of our fleet is to tack first, every ship one after another as fast as they can, throughout the line.

And if the admiral would have the whole fleet tack together, the sooner to put them in a posture of engaging the enemy, then he will hoist the union flag on the flagstaff's[2] at the fore and mizen mast-heads and fire a gun; and all the flagships in the fleet are to do the same.