[232] S. P. D. Chas. I, dxviii, 120: "I desire you to provide and send downe twenty Pendents of my Colours viz. Yellowe and Tawny for the ships that accompany mee to sea. And I shall n(ee)d a newe Standard for the St George."
[233] Clarendon S. P. ii, 468, 9.
[234] These arms and device were also used on Proclamations issued in January, 1689.
[235] This is especially seen in the case of the Earl of Lindsey, who had nevertheless been granted the extraordinary privilege of pardoning penalties inflicted by Martial Law in his fleet, a power that did not appertain even to the Lord High Admiral.
[236] I.e. the anchor flag; this is confirmed by a sketch of the flags ordered on 20th March, 1702, in Rawlinson MS. C 914.
[237] Adm. Sec. Out Lrs. 182.
[238] I.e. H.M.S. Prince.
[239] This is perhaps due to the fact that the English Lord Admirals adopted a ship in full sail upon the obverse of their seals. We have no specimen of the reverse or counter-seal earlier than that of Nottingham. As the anchor is found on the reverse of this seal it is possible that it was upon the reverse in the earlier seals.
[240] The author is indebted to Mr R. G. Marsden for this reference.
[241] Reproduced in Hakluyt Society's edition of Hakluyt's Voyages, iv, 208. The engraving may be dated circa 1600.