. Our flag number, with 1197 flags in full colors and 300 additional illustrations in black and white. twocompanies were constituted, one called the London Company theother the Plymouth Company. To the first named was assignedof this vast territory all that portion lying between the parallelsof 340 and 41 ° north latitude under the name of South the latter all lying to the north of 41 °, called North was the vague extent of the old dominion of After the execution of Charles I, the new council of stateson the 22d Feb., 1648-9, passed a resolution: That thesh
. Our flag number, with 1197 flags in full colors and 300 additional illustrations in black and white. twocompanies were constituted, one called the London Company theother the Plymouth Company. To the first named was assignedof this vast territory all that portion lying between the parallelsof 340 and 41 ° north latitude under the name of South the latter all lying to the north of 41 °, called North was the vague extent of the old dominion of After the execution of Charles I, the new council of stateson the 22d Feb., 1648-9, passed a resolution: That theships at sea in the service of the states shall bear the red crossin a white flag. That the engraving upon the sterns of the J See ana. 2 Rushworth says, 1634 (; pp. ) that the union flag, that is the and St. Andrews crosses joined together, was still to be reserved as an ornamentproper to the kings own ships, and ships in his immediate service and pay, and noneother. English ships were to bear the red cross, Scotch the white. 3 See note ante. 118 ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE. Long Parliament Flag. ships shall be the arms of England and Ireland in two escutcheonsas is used in the seals. Soon after we read of vessels sailingunder the long parliament flag whichbore on a blue field the yellow Irishharp, with the St. Georges cross nextthe staff in a white canton. Under theprotectorate we find a blue flag in use,bearing in the field the two shields ofEngland and Ireland, viz: argent, across gules, and azure a harp or. Thesewere joined together in a horse shoeshape, and surrounded by a white la-bel of three folds, the motto in blackletters Floreat Res. Publico andoutside two golden branches of laurel,leaved green. Another flag of this period preserved as late as 1803in one of the storehouses of Chatham dock yard, bore the sameshields slightly separated on a red field, and surrounded bybranches of palm and laurel. On the fleet which restored Charles II to the thr
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