ordinances to be obserued among the seafaring men which tended to this
effect:

[Sidenote: Slaiers of men.]
1 First, that if any man chanced to slea an other on the
shipboord, he should be bound to the dead bodie and so throwne
into the sea.

2 Secondlie, if he killed him on land, he should yet be bound to
him as before, and so buried quicke togither.

[Sidenote: Brallers. Punishment for blouddrawers.]
3 Thirdlie, if any man should be conuicted by lawfull witnesse,
that he drew any weapon to strike any other, or chanced by
striking at any man to draw bloud of him that was smitten, he
should lose his hand.

4 Fourthlie, if he gaue but a blowe with his fist without
bloudshedding, he should be plunged three seuerall times ouer
head and eares in the water.

[Sidenote: Reuilers.]
5 Fifthlie, if any man reuiled another, he should for euerie time
so misusing himselfe, forfeit an ounce of siluer.

[Sidenote: Theft and pickeries.]
6 Sixtlie, that if anie man were taken with theft or pickerie,
and thereof conuicted, he should haue his head polled, and hot
pitch powred vpon his pate, and vpon that, the feathers of some
pillow or cushion shaken aloft, that he might thereby be knowne