[162] _Fighting Instructions_ 1530-1816 (N.R.S.), 1905, p. 108. [163] _B. M. Sloane MS._ 2682. The copy was probably made in 1638. [164] See _Hist. MSS. Com._ Report X, App. IV, p. 280. [165] The 'Lion's Whelps,' ten in number, were built in 1628. They were small craft, of the "Pinnace" type, ship-rigged, with spritsail-topmasts. [166] On a later occasion the two Whelps were ordered to take down their topgallant masts as well, to complete the disguise. [167] B. M. _Sloane MS._ 2449, a holograph copy: the page is headed "of the Flagge called the Jacke." It does not occur in _Sloane_ 758 or _Harleian_ 1341, or in the Bodleian MS. _Rawlinson_ A 463. [168] He is using this word incorrectly. [169] Pennington was the principal figure at sea on the royalist side until the Parliament drove him from the navy in 1642. [170] _S. P. D. Inter._ I, 62, p. 7: the Act was, however, dated 23rd. See _Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum_, II, 13. [171] Bodl. _Rawlinson MS._ A 224. The entry is dated 22nd Feb. [172] _S. P. D. Inter._ I, 62, p. 8. In the letter to the Navy Commissioners the words "quite through the flagg" were added. [173] _Ibid._ The order about the Arms does not appear to have been immediately acted upon, for it was repeated on 6th June. [174] _Ibid._ p. 24. [175] _Ibid._ I, 62, p. 53. See Plate VIII, fig. 3. [176] The Commissioners (Blake, Deane, and Popham) for exercising the office of "Admiral and General of the Fleet" created by Act of Parliament 24th Feb. 1649, usually known as the "Generals at Sea." They stood in much the same position as that formerly occupied by the late Lord High Admiral, the Earl of Warwick, so far as the management of the fleet was concerned, though without the Lord Admiral's full legal powers, which were vested in the Council of State. [177] _S. P. D. Inter._ I, 65. [178] See Plate VI, fig. 5. This flag, which tradition connects with Blake himself, has been preserved at Chatham Dockyard from time immemorial, but was recently loaned by the Admiralty to the Royal United Service Institution, where it may now be seen. Mr Fraser has discussed its connection with Blake in his book _The Fighting Fame of the King's Ships_, 1910, p. 110. [179] E.g. R. Nooms (Zeeman), _Zeegevecht voor Livorno_ (1653), and J. A. Beerstraten, _Zeeslag by ter Heide_ 1653, in the Rijks Museum at Amsterdam. Also in etchings by Zeeman. See Plate V, fig. 3. [180] _Letters and Papers relating to the First Dutch War_ (N. R. S.), III, 189. [181] Bodl. _Rawlinson_ A 227. Order of Navy Commissioners hastening supply of flags for the fleet, dated 2nd March, 1653: "3 Standards of ye usuall colo^{rs} w^{th} ye field Red, 4 fflags of ye Jack colo^{rs}." Cf. also Instructions of Vice Adm. Goodson to Penn 21 June, 1655: "You shall wear the jack-flag upon the maintop masthead during your continuance in the service aforesaid" (_Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir Wm Penn_, II, 116.) [182] _S. P. D. Inter._ I, 78, p. 627.