[146] Annales of Scotland (s.v. 1606), written about 1640.
[147] In the Rijks Museum. There are many illustrations of the Union flag in late seventeenth century mss., one of the most important of these being the Flag Book of Lieut. Graydon (1686) in the Pepysian Library. They all show a broad border.
[149] Pepys MSS., Miscellanea, ix.
[150] S. P. D. Jas I, ci, 8: A Survey of the present rigging of all His Majs Ships 1618.
1 Imperiall fflag wh the kings armes of taffaty guilded.
1 Brittish fflag of 15 clothes of taffaty.
1 of St George of 12 breadths of taffaty.
[151] S. P. D. Chas I, i, 98: "the Banner of the Union with the Crosses of both kingdoms."
[152] Ibid. cxvi, 50: "When you shall heare a piece of ordnance from ye Admll of the fleete and see ye Union fflagg in ye misne shrowds yt shalbe a signe for ye Counsell of Warre to come aboard."
[153] Ibid. ccccxv, 49: Instructions given by Sir John Pennington, 26th March, 1639. "And when you see ye British Flagg spread upon my Mizen Shrowds...."
[154] Really because the English navy had become so weak that other nations saw no longer any reason to yield those marks of respect formerly exacted of them.