British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea / With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device

by William Gordon Perrin

[303] Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, ii, 203.

[304] Ibid. ii, 203.

[305] Rules in Sir John Hawkins his tyme, S. P. D. Jas I, clvii, 67.

[306] Chardges in equipping & setting forth xvj^en of her Ma^ts shippes and pinnaces to the seas. Pipe Off. Dec. Acct. 2232.

[307] See Arts 16 and 31 of the Instructions (Naval Miscellany (N. R. S.), vol. i). The greenish edge in the accompanying diagrams is apparently the artist's shading.

[308] S. P. D. Eliz. cclix, 48, printed in Oppenheim's Naval Tracts of Sir Wm. Monson (N. R. S.), iv, 202 et seq.

[309] Oppenheim, Monson Tracts (N. R. S.), iv, 209.

[310] S. P. D. Chas I, v, 31.

[311] See [Plate IX], figs. 3-6, 8 and 9. In the earlier ensigns, towards the end of Elizabeth's reign, the stripes were sometimes diagonal, and different designs appear to have been used to distinguish individual ships, much as the ensigns were used to distinguish regiments ashore.

[312] I.e. as signals.