“=The King’s Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons=, commanded by John, Lord Churchill.—The colours to each troop thus distinguished: the colonel’s, the royal cypher and crown embroidered upon crimson; the lieutenant-colonel’s, the rays of the sun, proper, crowned, issuing out of a cloud, proper, and is a badge of the Black Prince’s. The first troop has, for colours, the top of a beacon, crowned or, with flames of fire proper, and is a badge of Henry V. The second troop, two ostrich’s feathers crowned argent, a badge of Henry VI. The third, a rose and pomegranate impaled, leaves and stalk vert, a badge of Henry VIII. Fourth troop, a phœnix in flames, proper, a badge of Queen Elizabeth; each embroidered upon crimson. “=First Regiment of Foot Guards= (of twenty-four companies).—The King’s company, standard all crimson, cypher and crown embroidered in gold; the colonel’s white with the red cross (St. George’s), the crown or: the lieutenant-colonel’s, the same cross, with C.R. crowned or: the major’s, C.R. and crown, with a blaze crimson (i.e., a flame issuing from the top left-hand corner of the flag); the first company, with the King’s crest, which is a lion passant guardant crowned or, standing on a crown. (Brooks then gives the remaining company badges which are set out in full later.) “=Colestream or Cauldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.=—This regiment flyes the St. George’s Cross, bordered with white in a blew field (cf. above). “=The Royal Regiment of Foot=, commanded by the Earl of Dumbarton, flyes a St. Andrew’s Cross, with a thistle and crown circumscribed in the centre, ‘Nemo me impune lacessit.’ “=The Queen’s Regiment of Foot=, commanded by the Hon. Piercy Kirk, flyes a red cross bordered with white and rays as the admirals (see below), in a green field, with Her Majesty’s royal cypher in the centre. “=The Duke of Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot.=—The Admiral flyes the red cross, with rays of the sun issuing from each angle of the cross, or. “=The Holland Regiment of Foot= (afterwards the 3rd Buffs) flyes the red cross bordered white in a green field. “=Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of York and Albany’s Regiment of Foot= (4th King’s Own) flies a red cross in a yellow field, bordered white, with rays, as that of the Admiral’s, with H.R.Highness’s cypher in the centre.” Having completed the quotation from Brooks, we are able to give an extract from an old M.S., which is interesting when read in conjunction with the above descriptions of Army flags:— “The imbroidered cypher and crowne on both sides Ye King’s owne colours, £3 . 10 . 0. “For painting and guilding ye other 23 colours and crownes on both sides one with another at 15s. a side, £34 . 10 . 0.”