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

[185] Nominally in joint commission with Monk as General at Sea.

[186] S. P. D. Inter. cciii, 69. This standard was the same as that in use from 1649 to 1658.

[187] Ibid. cci, 15.

[188] Diary, 13th May, 1660.

[189] I.e. covering over the escutcheons containing the cross and harp.

[190] Memoirs of the English Affairs, chiefly Naval..., 1729.

[191] B. M. 1851, c, 8 (129).

[192] Adm. Lib. D'Eon MS. p. 367.

[193] Not a difficult matter, to judge from some of the "union flags" flown by foreign men-of-war at the Naval Review at Spithead in 1911.

[194] Mayo, The Trinity House of London, 1905, p. 44.