A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period

by M. Oppenheim

[254] Letters and Papers, 4th June.

[255] Heraldically in gold and silver.

[256] Letters and Papers, 28th July 1514. Banners were square or nearly square, somewhat resembling the Royal Standard of to-day. Standards were long, narrow, and split at the end. Streamers were still longer and narrower, now represented by pennants, (N. H. Nicolas, Excerpta Historica, p. 50).

[257] Letters and Papers, 10th April 1514.

[258] Ibid. i, 5721; Chapter House Bks., vol. xiii; and Stowe. MSS. 146, f. 114.

[259] Letters and Papers, ii, 3549.

[260] Harl. MSS. 309, f. 10.

[261] Coleccion de Viages, i, 412.

[262] Fernandez Duro, Viajes Regios por Mar, p. 128.

[263] Harl. MSS. 309. Audley, afterwards Lord Chancellor and Lord Audley of Walden was Speaker in 1529 and knighted. In this paper he is called simply Thos. Audley so that it may be presumed to be earlier than 1532, the year of knighthood.