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If any Man shall offer to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be maroond with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and Shot.”
That Man that shall snap his Arms, or smoke Tobacco in the Hold, without a Cap to his Pipe, or carry a Candle lighted without a Lanthorn, shall receive Mosess Law (that is, 40 Stripes lacking one) on the bare Back.”
If any Man shall lose a Joint in time of an Engagement, shall have 400 Pieces of Eight; if a Limb, 800.”
from Captain John Philipss Articles, 1724