The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ects; andin their foretop our subjects of South Britain shallwear the Red cross only as they were wont; and our?subjects of North Britain in their foretop the Whitecross only, as they were accustomed. Whereforewe will and command all our subjects to be conform-able and obedient to this our order, and that fromhenceforth they do not use or bear their flags in anyother sort, as they will answer the contrary at theirperil. Given,
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . ects; andin their foretop our subjects of South Britain shallwear the Red cross only as they were wont; and our?subjects of North Britain in their foretop the Whitecross only, as they were accustomed. Whereforewe will and command all our subjects to be conform-able and obedient to this our order, and that fromhenceforth they do not use or bear their flags in anyother sort, as they will answer the contrary at theirperil. Given, &c. 12th April, 4 Jac. I. 1606. There is eveiy reason to believe that the flag ar-ranged by the Heralds on this occasion was the sameas on the Union with Scotland became the NationalBanner, because it occurs on one of the Great Sealsof Charles the Second, and is represented on the bow-sprit and mizen-mast of the Sovereign of the Seas,(which ship was built in 1637,) in pictures of that ves-sel by Vandevelde and Hey wood. The flag in ques-tion maybe thus blazoned: the Cross of St. Andrewsurmounted by that of St. George, the latter fimbri- ated Argent. No. government of the army with which Richard II. Invaded Scot-land, in 1386, and which were also adopted by Henry theFifth, will best shew the regulations on the subject: By a Royal Proclamation, dated 28th July, 1707,pursuant to the authority which was vested in theCrown by the Act of Union, this combination wasordered to be the Ensigns Armorial of the UnitedKingdom of Great Britain. Instead of adhering in this arrangement to theusual rules for marshalling Arms, by which the Crossof St. George would have been quartered with thatof St. Andrew, as is represented in the annexedwood-cut, No. 4.
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