British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea: With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National DevicePerrin, William Gordon
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British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea: With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device
Perrin, William Gordon
Flags -- Great Britain
Streamers with the royal arms in chief varying in length from 8 to
38 yards
Standards with the royal arms in chief varying in length from 7 to
12 yards
Banners of the royal arms
Banners of St George
A Gonfanon of council of red tartaryn worked with nine golden
angels supporting a shield of the royal arms, each angel having
on his head a chaplet of the Order of the Garter (_Un gonfanon de
conseil de tartaryn rouge batuz od ix angelis dor tenantz un escu
des armes du Roy eiant suz les testes chapeles de garetters des
conflarie de saint George_)
A gonfanon blue and white with a shield of the royal arms
surrounded by a garter powdered with a golden fleurs de lis.
A similar indenture made with John of Sleaford, Clerk of the Privy
Wardrobe, mentions 18 standards of worsted of the royal arms, and 234
standards of linen of the arms of St George with leopards of worsted in
chief.
The flags of the fifteenth century were of similar type. A roll of the
tenth year of Henry V[113], containing a long list of articles supplied
for the royal ships, mentions the following flags:
For the "Trinity Royal"
A banner of council of the royal arms and St George,
Gittons of the Holy Trinity, St Mary, St Edward, royal arms,
St George, the ostrich feather, and swan,
Standards of St Mary, St George, the ostrich feather and royal
arms.
For the "Holy Ghost"
A streamer of the "Holy Ghost,"
Gittons of the Holy Ghost, antelope, royal arms, swan and
St Edward,
Standards of the Holy Ghost, St George, antelope and swan.
For the "Gabriel"
A streamer of St Katherine,
A gitton of St Edward.
For the "Nicholas"
A streamer of St Nicholas,
Gittons of St Edward, royal arms and ostrich feather,
Standards of St Edward and St George.
For the "Grace Dieu"
A streamer of St Nicholas,
A gitton of St Edward.
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