31 Item ye shall inquire of those which within any of their ships do weigh merchandises or goods, by or with balances or weights, not agreeing or being sealed with or according to her majesties Standard, to the fraud, hurt and deceit of her people.  
32 Item ye shall inquire of all those viz. Marshals, bailiffs, and other ministers, and stewards of Noblemen, that haue presumed to take or receive to the use of their Lords and Masters any goods or other things whatsoever vpon the high Sea, or other places within the jurisdiction of the admiralty spoiled and brought to land haue presumed to take or receive to the use of their Lords and masters such goods as are forfeited, or the forfeiture of them to the prejudice and derogation of the Lord high admiral.  
33 Item ye shall inquire of all those which gather and enclose the salt water into ditches, and make to themselves standing fish pounds or indraughts and of ●… ew making and beginning gulfs and other deep and immovable places, getting and receiving the commodities and profits thereof to their own proper and private uses and necessaries, which in salt waters ought to be common to all persons.  
34 Item ye shall inquire of those which do gather and receive within any port or other place, of any ship of the portage and burden of fifty tons and upwards for anchorage thereof above four pence, and of any ship under that burden for anchorage thereof above two pence, by means whereof the said ships do leaus and forsake the said places to the burt hindrance and damage of the common people adjoining.  
35 Item ye shall inquire of the keepers of ports, Customers, water bailiffs or other officers whatsoever, which claim or begin new customs for their own or their masters private or proper commodities. By means whereof the ships and merchants do forsake the said port and places with their merchandises to the hurt, damage, and loss of the common profit and utility of the Commonwealth.  
36 Item ye shall inquire of those which are ordained or pressed to serve the King vpon the Sea in any ship in time of war or peace, and if from the said service, without leave or unlawfully they haue absented themselves.  
37 Item ye shall inquire what men of Honours, Stewards and bailiffs inhabiting or having mansion houses, near the Sea cost, do hold and usurp to hold plea, of any matter or cause concerning merchants and martiners or marine causes above the sum of forty shillings sterling.  
38 Item ye shall inquire of all ships which haue been arrested or prest to serve her majesty vpon the Sea, and afterwards the masters, owners, and proprietaries thereof, by fraud and deceit haue withdrawn or keep them from the same service, defrauding her majesty.  
39 Item ye shall inquire of those which witting and willingly haue cut the cables of any ship or ships, or other vessel or vessels, or hath broken any( ●●reasonable cause vrgeing him or them thereunto) by means whereof the said ship or vessel is lost or drowned or same man by that occasion killed.  
40 Item ye shall inquire of those which either by day or night haue removed the anchor of any ship( not giuing warning thereof first, to the master and martiners thereof) by means whereof the said ship or ships was cast away or lost, or any man slain.  
41 Item ye shall inquire of felonies committed and done vpon foreign or strange ships, or vessels being or tiding at an Anchor in any port, when it is not apparent, who or what be or they were, that committed or did the said spoil or piracy.  
42 Item ye shall inquire of petite transgressors or pickers which haue stolen or take away vpon the Sea, or within any port or creeke, anchors, cables, beyes, sails, topes, girdles, shirts, breeches, or other samll things whatsoever.  
43 Item ye shall inquire of all common and notorious malefactors as well vpon the high Seas, as in any Port, haven, Riner, Creeke, or stream.  
44. Item ye shall inquire who of custom force, or authority( from merchants or mariners, with their ships freighted and laden with victuals and merchandises entering any ports or other places) doth take or hath taken away victuals against their wils, and pay them for the same at their pleasure, by occasion whereof the said merchants and mariners, do lean and forsake the said Ports, and places, to the hurt and damage of her majesties good subiects.  
45 Item ye shall inquire of all those persons that commonly fight with or beace any of her majesties subiects and people within the jurisdiction of the Lord admiral, contrary to the peace of her majesty.  
46 Item ye shall inquire of all those which vpon the high Seas, haue found any ships, pinnasses, Bontes forsaken, or wayfres dryning or floating without any creature in the same, being by the space of a day natural, and hath not answered the Lord admiral his part viz, the half thereof.  
47 Item ye shall inquire of all those which do receive or conceal Deodandes( to the Lord admiral in virtue of his office of admiralty by right appertaying or belonging) that is ships or other vessels, out of which all living creatures in the same by shiwracke seemeth to haue been perished or cast away.  
48 Item ye shall inquire if any person or persons haue been stain, drowned, or come to his or their death by any ship or ships, or their Tackle, furniture as Anchor, Cable rope, or any other thing whatsoever to the ship belonging or by sailing, moving or going of the ship vpon the sea.  
49 Item ye shall inquire of those which buy any kind of grain or corn of whatsoever state, condition or degree they be vpon the Sea coasts, and transport the same to any the parts of beyond the Seas without the special licence of the queens majesty.  
50 Item ye shall inquire of those which after some mariners, or fishermen haue set or laid their nets, toards, or engines to fish, do come after them, and place, pitch or lay their nets and engines so near them; that the fishermen which first set cannot fish, but are deprived and bereft of the benefit of their birth and ●●●… king, or otherwise much grieved and troubled, by means whereof contentions and debates often grow, and happen, to the great prejudice of her majesty, the Lord high admiral, and other her majesties subiects, against the laws of the Sea in this behaife provided.  
51 Item ye shall inquire and true presentment make of all those that since the late Proclamation haue had traffic with the Leguers in france, or shipped tarried or sent any victuals, Ordinauce, Powder, short or other artillery for spain, the Islands, or any Leaguer town in france, or other place, in ●●●ity with her majesty.  
52 Item ye shall inquire and present all manuer of ships, boats, vessels, and other goods of men outlawed, remaining within the jurisdiction of the admiralty.  
53 Item ye shall inquire and truly present all those that haue set out any Ships or other vessels to sea, without Commission under the great seal of England, or the great seal of the admiralty first obtained.  
54 Item ye shall inquire what ships, goods, moneys and merchandises, haue been taken at sea, without such commissions, and brought into any part of her majesties dominions, and by whom, and who were owners, captaines, masters, and chief officers of such ships, and where they of their prizes taken 〈◇〉 arrive.  
55 Item ye shall inquire of all maner of breaking bulk of prizes, and disposing and parting of prise goods before sentence were first given in the high Court of the admiralty, that the same were lawful prise, and truly present by whom and where the same hath been done.  
56 Item ye shall enqure for all such that contrary to their Commissions of reprisal haue carried any prizes by them taken into Barbary, france, Ireland, or any other place out of this realm, and there disposed the same, and of what value they were of.  
57 Item ye shall inquire, what Captaines, masters, mariners, or others at Sea under colour of their Commission of reprisal, haue aborded, taken or spoy●● any ship or ships of England, France, Scotland, denmark, Italy, Polland, Zealand, Germany, or any other place in league or amity with her majesty, and what goods they haue so taken or spoyled, whither they haue brought them, and who haue bought, received or had any part of the same in any maner sort or con●ition or haue borrowed or lent any money to bup the said goods.   
jul: Caesar.   

Imprinted ar London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the queens most excellent majesty.