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

[155] S. P. D. Chas I, cclxv, 23.

[156] It is not mentioned in the Council's warrant to the Attorney General directing him to prepare the proclamation.

[157] See "An Atlas of Drake's last voyage," by Dr Jules Sottas, Mariner's Mirror, May, 1912.

[158] Probably about June, 1596.

[159] S. P. D. Eliz. cclix, 48. For full transcript of the second section of these notes see The Naval Tracts of Sir Wm Monson, edited by Mr Oppenheim (Navy Records Society), iv, 202. The first part has never been published.

[160] Mariner's Mirror, April, 1911.

[161] Navy Records Society, vol. xx, 1902.

[162] Fighting Instructions 1530-1816 (N.R.S.), 1905, p. 108.

[163] B. M. Sloane MS. 2682. The copy was probably made in 1638.

[164] See Hist. MSS. Com. Report x, App. iv, p. 280.