PLATE XXXI. RIGHT AND WRONG VERSIONS OF THE UNION JACK.
It also happens that unless the flag is exactly square the blue sections of the field must differ more or less in size. Ignorant flag-makers try to correct this, but only by dislocating in the middle the diagonal lines that ought always to be straight and continuous.
The right way up of a Union Jack is indicated by the Scottish, that is, the broader white, half of the diagonal members being always uppermost in the two pieces next the staff.
[9] Brit. Mus. Cott. MS. Julius E. IV.
[10] Elias Ashmole, The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter (London, 1672), 149.
[11] Ibid. 335, 336.
[12] MS. M 3.
[13] Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition, Burlington House, 1894 (London, 1896), pl. xxviii.
[14] 'Et in quodam leone de petra faciendo et erigendo super gabulum in eadem aula.'