[195] Pepys MSS. Miscellanea, ix.
[196] Ibid.
[197] The name "Budgee," in flag-books of the early eighteenth century, is derived from Bugia (Bougie) in Algeria. In the tenth century this was one of the most important seaports in North Africa, but in the seventeenth century it was fast falling into decay, and beyond the fact that the Algerine pirates lying there were successfully attacked by Sir Edward Spragge in 1673 there was nothing to connect the name with the English navy.
[198] George St Lo.
[199] By the Proclamation of 1694. "All such ships as shall have Commissions of Letters of Mart or Reprisals shall, besides the colours which may be worn by Merchants' ships, wear a Red Jack, with the Union Jack described in a Canton of the upper corner thereof next the staff." It retained this use until privateering was abolished in 1856.
[200] 17 July, 1694. B. M. 21 h, 3 (157).
[201] 18 Dec. 1702. London Gazette, 3872.
[202] See [Plate V], fig. 6, and [page 127].
[203] 21st July, 1707, Adm. Sec. In. Lrs. 5151. The illustration in [Plate IV], fig. 1, is a reduced facsimile of the Union flag as therein depicted. It will be seen that the St George's cross has a comparatively wide white border, and that the blue was of a lighter colour than that which afterwards became customary.
[204] Proclamation 28th July, 1707, London Gazette, 4356.