Abstract
E I TTLE is known about the flags carried by the military companies in the time of Charles I, but from the fact that in ....m~-~:! 1643, at the outbreak ~~ ' _ of the Civil War in Detail from the portrait of England, the same Captain Thomas Savage, I679 system of divisional flags was in use in both armies (the King's and Parliament's), it seems safe to assume that this indicates that both armies followed the usage, previously current, in the reign of Charles I. Samuel Milne Milne, the leading authority on British military flags, in his exhaustive volume The Standards and Colours of the Army, i66I-i88r, referring to this period, writes:
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