WHereas it is found that great inconveniences have en­sued for want of a strict and severe Discipline to have been observed in the Navy or Fleet set forth by Au­thority of Parliament, under the Command of Robert Earl of Warwick Lord High Admiral of England; It is now Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament as­sembled, That from henceforth the Captains, Commanders, Officers, Mariners, Seamen and Soldiers, and all other what­soever thereunto belonging, under the Command of the said Lord High Admiral, shall expect no further forbearance of such punishment as may be condignly inflicted upon them, according to the Civil Laws, Law-Marshal, and Customs of the Sea, and according to such Laws and Ordinances as shall by him the said Lord High Admiral and his Councel of VVar, by him put in Commission under his Hand and Seal, be concluded and agreed upon, but shall therein be subject to his and their Power and Authority, to be punished by Death, or otherwise according to their demerits, and as shall be due unto them by the said Laws and Ordinances.