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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7557532" data-attributes="member: 2525">I have not found that gold rush charter I mentioned, yet. But I did find <a href="https://www.piratedocuments.com/bartholomew-roberts-articles-1721/" target="_blank">Black Bart's pirate rules</a>, which are similar:Articles(1. Pirate captain’s name)Captain Bartholomew RobertsDrawn up by the (2. Pirate vessel’s name)Good Fortune crew as shipboard conductI. Every man has a vote in affairs of moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity makes necessary, for the good of all, to vote a retrenchment.II. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because, they were on these occasions allowed a shift of clothes: but if they defrauded the company to the value of a dollar in plate, jewels, or money, marooning was their punishment. If the robbery was only betwixt one another, they contented themselves with slitting the ears and nose of him that was guilty, and set him on shore, not in an uninhabited place, but somewhere, where he was sure to encounter hardships.III. No person to game at cards or dice for money.IV. The lights and candles to be put out at eight o’clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour still remained inclined for drinking, they were to do it on the open deck.V. To keep their peace, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service.VI. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man were to be found seducing any of the latter sex, and carried her to sea, disguised, he was to suffer death.VII. To desert their ship or quarters in battle, was punished with death or marooning.VIII. No striking one another on board, but every man’s quarrels to be ended on shore, at sword and pistol.IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared £1,000. If in order to this, any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, he was to have 800 dollars, out of the public stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.X. The captain and quartermaster to receive two shares of prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and a quarter.XI. The musicians to have rest on the Sabbath Day, only by night, but the other six days and nights, not without special favour.XII (3. Add optional article(s) here)</blockquote>

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