ARTICLE 1: Every man shall obey civil command; the captain shall have one full share and a half in all prizes. the Master, Carpenter, Boatswain, and Gunner shall have one share and quarter.

ARTICLE 2: If any man shall offer to run away, or keep any secret from the Company, he shall be marroon'd with one bottle of powder, one bottle of Water, one small Arm, and shot.

ARTICLE 3: If any Man shall steal any Thing in the Company, or game, to the value of a piece of Eight, he shall be Marroon'd or shot.

ARTICLE 4: If at any Time we should meet at another Marrooner (that is, Pyrate) that man shall sign his Articles without Consent of our Company, shall suffer such Punishment as the Captain and Company shall think fit.

ARTICLE 5: That a man that shall strike another, whilst these Articles are in force, shall receive Moses's Law (that is 40 Stripes lacking one) on the bare Back.

ARTICLE 6: That Man that shall snap his Arms, or smoak Tobacco in the Hold, without cap to his Pipe, or carry a candle lighted without lanthorn, shall suffer the same Punishment as in the former Article.

ARTICLE 7: That Man that shall not keep his Arms clean, fit for an Engagement, or neglect his Business, shall be cut off from his Share, and suffer such other Punishment as the Captain and Company shall think fit.

ARTICLE 8: If any man shall lose a joint in time of Engagement, shall have 400 Pieces of Eight: if a limb, 800.

ARTICLE 9: If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer Death.

Brigantine - A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on the foremast with fore-and-aft mainsail.

Barque - (Alternate spelling: "Bark") - A sailing ship with three to five masts, all square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.

Barquentine - (Alternate spelling: "Barkentine") - A three- or more-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged in the remaining masts.

Brig - A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on both masts.

Schooner - A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two or more masts.

Clipper - A sharp-bowed sailing vessel of the mid-19th century, with tall masts and sharp lines and built for great speed.

Ketch - A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with a mizzenmast stepped aft of a taller mainmast but forward of the rudder.

Sloop - In modern times, a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing boat with a short standing bowsprit or none at all and a single headsail hanked on the forestay.

Frigate - A three-masted, full-rigged, high-speed, medium-sized sailing war vessel of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.