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

[222] Its use was discontinued on the official adoption of Howe's Signal Book in 1790.

[223] Froissart, i (MS. de Rome).

[224] eux.

[225] Froissart, i.

[226] Hakl. Voy. vii, 141.

[227] S. P. Henry VIII, ccv, 160. Instructions drawn up by Sir John Hawkins in the latter part of Elizabeth's reign contain the same provision. "Item the Ld. Admirall shall beare a flagg of the Armes of England upon the Top of his Mayne-mast. And a flagg of St. George one the foretopmast."

[228] Rawlinson MS. A 192.

[229] Buckingham flew the standard during the Ile de Ré expedition of 1627.

[230] Cal. S. P. D. 15th June, 1624.

[231] Penn, Memorials of Penn, i, 262.