ABSTRACT
The armament of Queen Mary's ships is fully described in a previously unpublished Ordnance Office survey of 1555, now at Longleat. This must be the work of Robert Anthony, and is the only such establishment to survive between his great illuminated inventory of 1546, and a list of 1585. If any mariner or soldier departeth from the King or Queen's Majesty's ships without licence of his captain, the same is felony by statute. Let every ship match equally as near as he can, and to leave some pinnace at liberty to help the over-matched, and one small ship, when they shall join battle, be attending on the Admiral to relieve him. When and at times the Admiral will anchor or disanchor, he must shoot off a piece; thereby the rest may know to do the same, and that no ship ride in another's wake, for in that is peril.
