A slight modification was introduced in the King's Regulations of 1906, which ordered that in ships with less than three masts this pendant should be hoisted at the "starboard topsail-yard-arm." This was again modified in 1913 when the senior captain at a port, if the senior naval officer there present, was instructed to hoist this pendant at the masthead while any Commodore junior to him on the list of captains was also present in that port.
FOOTNOTES:
[215] The art of Heraldry was not established until the thirteenth century, and the armorial bearings associated with the names of our kings before Richard I are the inventions of the mediaeval heralds, who, in their anxiety to give their art a foundation in the past, did not hesitate to assign arms even to the psalmist David.
[216] Or leopards. See Ency. Brit. s.v. "Heraldry."
[217] The claim was renounced by the Treaty of Bretigny in 1360, to be renewed again at the suggestion of Parliament in 1369: presumably the French Arms were not used between these years.
[218] E.g. seal of the Exchequer of Ireland (Commonwealth).
[219] See [p. 64] and [Plate VI], fig. 5.
[220] See [p. 65] and [Plate VI], fig. 6.
[221] Fox-Davies, Complete Guide to Heraldry, 1909, p. 607.