History of the Union Jack and Flags of the EmpireCumberland, Barlow
History
History of the Union Jack and Flags of the Empire
Cumberland, Barlow
Emblems -- Great Britain; Flags -- Great Britain
[60] Minute of the Privy Council, 17 April, 1707.
Copies of the minute and of the drafts were transmitted under seal to
the College of Arms, London. A careful copy of the drawing of Draft C,
as attested by a certificate of the York _Herald_, is given (fig. 24).
Formal and important promulgation of the Orders and Flags was ordered
by another paragraph of this same minute of April:
"And Her Majesty is pleased to Order, That these Minutes be put
into the Hands of Her Majesty's Principal Secretarys of State, who
are to Receive Her Majesty's Pleasure thereupon, And to signify the
same within the United Kingdom of great Britain and in Ireland, Her
Majesty's Plantations in America, the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey
and all other Her Majesty's Dominions."[61]
[61] Minute of the Privy Council, 17 April, 1707.
[Illustration: 24. DRAFT "C," UNION JACK, 1707.]
This _Draft C_, so prepared by the Committee and Heralds, and selected
and approved by Her Majesty the Queen and Her Privy Council, was duly
transmitted to be the form of the new "_Flagg_," which was to be used
on all "_Flags and Ensigns at sea and on land_," and not only by Her
Majesty's subjects in the Home Kingdoms, but in all the Islands and
Dominions beyond the seas.
Thus was formed the "Union Jack" of Queen Anne, which, taking the place
of the Jack of James I., "_commonly called the Union Jack_," was the
second two-crossed Jack, and the first fully authorized "Union Jack."
In the July following, the Queen issued a proclamation regarding "Our
Jack" and the "Ensign" of the now completely United Kingdom, and
defining more particularly how these flags were to be used at sea:
ROYAL ARMS.
_Three lions for England_, _red lion for Scotland_, _harp for
Ireland_, _three fleurs-de-lis for France_, _and the motto, "Semper
Eadem."_
"BY THE QUEEN.
"_A Proclamation_--_Declaring what ensign or colours shall be
worn at sea in merchant ships or vessels belonging to any of Her
Majesty's subjects of Great Britain and the Dominions thereunto
belonging._--ANNE R.
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