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

[364] quarter.

[365] whither.

[366] Pepys MS. 1266.

[367] Sic; apparently the ship is to yaw, i.e. deviate from her course.

[368] S. P. D. James I, clvii, 67.

[369] The Naval Miscellany (Navy Records Soc.), vol. i.

[370] S. P. D. James I, xcii, 9.

[371] The latest ms. appears to be Sloane ms. 2427; the earliest that the author has seen is in the Bodleian. It was from a ms. almost identical with the latter that the printed edition was published in 1685.

[372] See [p. 42].

[373] "lesqueles banères sount appelés baucans et la gent d'Engleterre les appelent stremers et celes banères signefient mort sans remède et mortele guerre en tous les lious où mariners sont."