This proclamation of 1606, as copied from an original issue in the British Museum, reads as follows: "A proclamation declaring what Flagges South and North Britaines shall beare at Sea.
Wherefore wee will and command all our Subjects to be conformable and obedient to this our Order, and that from henceforth they do not use to beare their flagges in any other sort, as they will answere to contrary at their peril.
China junckes haveing out their flagges and stremars, with St. George amongst the rest, and shott affe above 40 chambers and peeces of ordinance at my arivall.
They decked all the eves of their howses this mornyng with flagges and mugwort, in honer of the great feast which is held to morrow, being the 5th day of the 5th month.
December we expected the Kings comming aborde, putting out all our flagges and streamers, and about noone there came 8.
And thus being reared up with handkerchiefs and flagges streaming on the toppe they strawe the ground aboute, binde green boughes aboute it, sett up sommer houses, Bowers, and Arbours hard by it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flagges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
