Booklet containing copies of the general instructions for Courts Martial, 1743-1798

Transcripts of documents dated between 1743 and 1798, as follows:

• General Instructions, pgs 1–3
• Opinion of the Judges respecting Captain Coffin, pg 4
• Dr. Paul’s opinion respecting an equal number of votes, pg 5
• Dr. Harris’s opinion when a member cannot attend from illness, pgs 6–7
• Order for trying a man by Courts Martial, pg 8
• Appointment of Judge Advocate and Provost Martial, pg 9
• Notice to prisoners and witnesses, pg 10
• Minutes, pg 11
• Sentence, pg 12
• Order for Punishment, pg 13
• Order for Surgeon to attend, pg 14
• Order for Provost Martial to release the Prisoner, pg 14
• Sentence for prevarication, pg 15
• Sentence for different punishments, pg 16
• Order for the Provost Martial to hang a man, pgs 17–18
• Sentence for Mutiny, pg 18
• Order and Sentence, pg 19
• Order and Pardon, pgs 20–21
• Orders of the Earl of St. Vincent, 1798, pgs 21–23
• Council of War, pg 24