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

[323] See [Plate V], fig. 7.

[324] See [p. 70].

[325] B. M. Add. MS. 12206.

[326] [Plate IX], fig. 8.

[327] See [p. 68].

[328] See [Plate IX], fig. 6. The number of stripes varied from nine to thirteen, the odd numbers being red.

[329] Tanner, Catalogue of the Pepysian MSS. (N. R. S.), iii, 325.

[330] Tanner, Catalogue of the Pepysian MSS. (N. R. S.), iii, 334.

[331] There are, however, instances during the eighteenth century of these ships flying a red or blue ensign.

[332] The Union replaced the St George's cross in the canton; and the St George's cross appears to have been introduced into the fly, by adding a vertical bar and thickening the middle stripe, about 1820. (See [Plate X], fig. 11.)