[118] _The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland_, I, 191: "Item que tout homme francois et escot ait un signe devant et derrere cest assauoir une croiz blanche saint andrieu et se son Jacque soit blanc ou sa cote blanche il portera la dicte croiz blanche en une piece de drap noir ronde ou quarree." [119] _Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland_ (Rolls Series), edited by Sir Jas. B. Paul, III, 90. [120] Ensigns. [121] White taffety of Genoa (jean). [122] _Op. cit._ VII, 189. [123] _Ibid._ IX, iii. [124] Rouen 1670, bound with his Les Us et Coutumes de la Mer. [125] Escosse le Sauteur d'argent qui est la Croix des Chevaliers Saint Andre, au drap de gueles ou d'azur: portent aussi face de gueles d'or et de Synope qui est verd, le Sauteur au quanton ou sur le tout. [126] The work appears, however, to have been written in 1634. [127] Plate X, fig. 1. [128] Dunbar, _Scottish Kings_, p. 89. [129] _Orkney Saga_, XI. [130] _Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, etc._ (Rolls Series), III, 181. [131] Regale vexillum, quod ad similitudinem draconis figuratam facile agnoscebatur. [132] Except possibly in St Brigit and St Columcille. [133] Elsewhere "meirge." [134] _War of the Gaedhill with the Gaill (Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh_). Ed. with translation by J. H. Todd (Rolls Series), p. 156. [135] Plate I, fig. 10. [136] Prestwich, _Respublica_. [137] E.g. Nicholas quotes an example in 1233, when the inhabitants of Dublin were directed to prepare their new great galley for the king's service, and ships from Waterford, Dublin, Youghal, Ross and Drogheda were supplied for the Flanders expedition in 1304. Some, perhaps all, of these ports were affiliated to the Cinque Ports, as, for instance, Youghal, which became "one of the Petylymmes of the Cinque Ports in Ireland" in 1462. (_Cal. Pat. Rolls._) [138] _S. P. D. Eliz._ CLXXXVII, 13. [139] See p. 198. [140] It may be pointed out, however, that under the present Merchant Shipping Act the flying of such a flag, if it did not imitate the British or other national colours, would not be illegal, but the ship must show the red ensign when required under Art. 74 of that Act. Chapter III _The Union Flags and Jacks_ In the preceding sketch of the early history of the British flags we have, so far as evidence is available, followed the steps by which the red cross on a white ground came to represent the people of England, and we have seen, though less clearly, how the white saltire on a blue ground became the chosen flag of the Scottish nation. It now remains to trace the process by which these two flags became united in one, and finally, by the addition of a red saltire to represent Ireland, developed into the present Union flag. On the death of Queen Elizabeth in March, 1603, the succession to the crown lay open.