British flags, their early history, and their development at sea; with an account of the origin of the flag as a national device (1922)
Perrin, William Gordon, 1874- · Cambridge University Press · leaf 106
standard now became more pecu-liarly the personal ensign of the king it is clear, from the frequencywith which this flag occurs in inventories of ships stores, that its usewas not confined to ships in which the king or his admiral were em-barked. It seems, however, to have been flown only on ships… … CaciorldgeUnlversityPr IV] THE ROYAL STANDARD 77 St George and other flags containing royal badges, or emblems repre-sentative of the saints after whom the ships were named. There was, however, some distinction by which the presence ofthe king could be denoted, and this difference lay most probably…
Flags -- Great Britain
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