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. [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. [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_.