[205] London Gazette, No. 15324.
[206] I.e. the second colour named: argent, or white.
[207] I.e. gules, or red.
[208] See the flag in [Plate IV], fig. 2, which is a reproduction of the original drawing preserved in the Privy Council Register.
[210] For discussion of the question how this came to represent Ireland see Chapter ii.
[211] The Union flag flown by the War Office on ceremonial days is, however, of naval pattern.
[212] Probably because after the seventeenth century the Union flag was rarely seen at sea in any other position.
[213] The Earl of Crewe, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, in the House of Lords 14th July, 1908.
[214] Pepys calls it "the Ordinary or Union Pendant used by the King's ships only."