[143] This was sent to the Lord High Admiral to be communicated to the Navy and Mercantile Marine, _vide_ draft letter _S. P. D. Jas I_, App. XXXVIII, 16. An earlier draft altered from a signet warrant of James I, and now in part illegible, is to be found in _S. P. D. Jas I_, App. XXXV, 23, misplaced among the papers of 1603. The deleted ninth and tenth lines, however, read: "Given under [our signet?] at our Pallace of Westm^r the first day of April in the fourth year of o^r raigne of Great Britaine ffrance and Ireland." A writer on the Union flag in the _Archeological Journal_, 1891, misled by the date at the top of the page containing the entry of the above Proclamation in the Syllabus to Rymer's _Foedera_, has stated that there was an earlier proclamation issued in 1605; an error that has been repeated by several subsequent writers. [144] _The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland_, VII, 498. [145] The object of a fimbriation is to prevent colour touching colour or metal touching metal, and, according to modern heraldic rules, it should be as narrow as possible consistent with this result. White is of course a metal: "argent." [146] _Annales of Scotland_ (_s.v._ 1606), written about 1640. [147] In the Rijks Museum. There are many illustrations of the Union flag in late seventeenth century MSS., one of the most important of these being the Flag Book of Lieut. Graydon (1686) in the Pepysian Library. They all show a broad border. [148] See p. 134. [149] _Pepys MSS._, Miscellanea, IX. [150] _S. P. D. Jas I_, CI, 8: A Survey of the present rigging of all His Maj^s Ships 1618. 1 Imperiall fflag w^h the kings armes of taffaty guilded. 1 Brittish fflag of 15 clothes of taffaty. 1 of St George of 12 breadths of taffaty. [151] _S. P. D. Chas I_, I, 98: "the Banner of the Union with the Crosses of both kingdoms." [152] _Ibid._ CXVI, 50: "When you shall heare a piece of ordnance from ye Adm^{ll} of the fleete and see ye Union fflagg in ye misne shrowds y^t shalbe a signe for ye Counsell of Warre to come aboard." [153] _Ibid._ CCCCXV, 49: Instructions given by Sir John Pennington, 26th March, 1639. "And when you see ye British Flagg spread upon my Mizen Shrowds...." [154] Really because the English navy had become so weak that other nations saw no longer any reason to yield those marks of respect formerly exacted of them. [155] _S. P. D. Chas I_, CCLXV, 23. [156] It is not mentioned in the Council's warrant to the Attorney General directing him to prepare the proclamation. [157] See "An Atlas of Drake's last voyage," by Dr Jules Sottas, _Mariner's Mirror_, May, 1912. [158] Probably about June, 1596. [159] _S. P. D. Eliz._ CCLIX, 48. For full transcript of the second section of these notes see _The Naval Tracts of Sir Wm Monson_, edited by Mr Oppenheim (Navy Records Society), IV, 202. The first part has never been published. [160] _Mariner's Mirror_, April, 1911. [161] Navy Records Society, vol. XX, 1902.