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

[399] The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his Voiage into the South Sea, p. 155.

[400] S. P. D. Inter., xxix, 11.

[401] First Dutch War (N. R. S.), v, 319.

[402] 1626, reprinted with additions as A Sea Grammar in 1627 and 1653.

[403] The 'Bahama' (Sp.), the 'Argonauta' (Sp.) and the 'Achille' (Fr.) indicated their surrender by displaying Union jacks from the deck.

[404] Charnock, Biographia Navalis, v, 318.

[405] Reproduced in Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, i, 363.

[406] Pepys MSS. Narborough's Journal, 9th September, 1673. This ship was actually fired at for not striking the flag on coming near the fleet!

[407] The practice of towing captured galleys stern foremost with their flags trailing in the water was in vogue as early as the end of the thirteenth century.

[408] Gardiner, First Dutch War (N. R. S.), i, 23.