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

[165] The 'Lion's Whelps,' ten in number, were built in 1628. They were small craft, of the "Pinnace" type, ship-rigged, with spritsail-topmasts.

[166] On a later occasion the two Whelps were ordered to take down their topgallant masts as well, to complete the disguise.

[167] B. M. Sloane MS. 2449, a holograph copy: the page is headed "of the Flagge called the Jacke." It does not occur in Sloane 758 or Harleian 1341, or in the Bodleian MS. Rawlinson A 463.

[168] He is using this word incorrectly.

[169] Pennington was the principal figure at sea on the royalist side until the Parliament drove him from the navy in 1642.

[170] S. P. D. Inter. i, 62, p. 7: the Act was, however, dated 23rd. See Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, ii, 13.

[171] Bodl. Rawlinson MS. A 224. The entry is dated 22nd Feb.

[172] S. P. D. Inter. i, 62, p. 8. In the letter to the Navy Commissioners the words "quite through the flagg" were added.

[173] Ibid. The order about the Arms does not appear to have been immediately acted upon, for it was repeated on 6th June.

[174] Ibid. p. 24.