[107] Twiss, _The Black Book of the Admiralty_, I, 456.
[110] Rymer, _Foedera_, II, 759 and Marsden, _Law and Custom of the Sea_ (N.R.S.), I, 46.
[111] Printed in _Lettres des Rois, etc._ (Documents inédits sur l'histoire de France) I, 392, and in part by Mr Marsden (_op. cit._ I, 50). See also p. 160.
[117] _Chronicles of the Picts, Chronicles of the Scots and other early Memorials of Scottish History_ (Rolls Series), Preface, clix.
[118] _The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland_, I, 191: "Item que tout homme francois et escot ait un signe devant et derrere cest assauoir une croiz blanche saint andrieu et se son Jacque soit blanc ou sa cote blanche il portera la dicte croiz blanche en une piece de drap noir ronde ou quarree."
[119] _Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland_ (Rolls Series), edited by Sir Jas. B. Paul, III, 90.
[124] Rouen 1670, bound with his Les Us et Coutumes de la Mer.
[125] Escosse le Sauteur d'argent qui est la Croix des Chevaliers Saint Andre, au drap de gueles ou d'azur: portent aussi face de gueles d'or et de Synope qui est verd, le Sauteur au quanton ou sur le tout.
[126] The work appears, however, to have been written in 1634.
[130] _Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, etc._ (Rolls Series), III, 181.
[131] Regale vexillum, quod ad similitudinem draconis figuratam facile agnoscebatur.
[132] Except possibly in St Brigit and St Columcille.
[134] _War of the Gaedhill with the Gaill (Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh_). Ed. with translation by J. H. Todd (Rolls Series), p. 156.
[137] E.g. Nicholas quotes an example in 1233, when the inhabitants of Dublin were directed to prepare their new great galley for the king's service, and ships from Waterford, Dublin, Youghal, Ross and Drogheda were supplied for the Flanders expedition in 1304. Some, perhaps all, of these ports were affiliated to the Cinque Ports, as, for instance, Youghal, which became "one of the Petylymmes of the Cinque Ports in Ireland" in 1462. (_Cal. Pat. Rolls._)
[140] It may be pointed out, however, that under the present Merchant Shipping Act the flying of such a flag, if it did not imitate the British or other national colours, would not be illegal, but the ship must show the red ensign when required under Art. 74 of that Act.