"That the Draft marked A be made use of for the manner of bearing Arms for the said United Kingdom.
"That the Flaggs be according to the Draft marked C, wherein the Crosses of St. George and St. Andrew are Conjoyned."[60]
[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:
_Three lions for England_, _red lion for Scotland_, _harp for Ireland_, _three fleurs-de-lis for France_, _and the motto, "Semper Eadem."_
"_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.