Sharing of Prizes

1676

These may certify, all whome it maye or doth concerne that the method att sea in His Majestie's ships of war when any prize is taken that the captain hath one third part and the officers one third part and the ships company one third of all goods whatever there is to be divided out of prizes. As wittness my hand this 22nd Julii 1676.

R.G. Marsden, Documents Relating to the Law and Custom of the Sea. (London: 1916), II:95.