BnF, Manuscrit Français 385, f. 25, digitised on Gallica; For a translation in English, see Pirate Flags Pirate Mythtory. Archived 21 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine: "And we put down our white flag, and raised a red flag with a Skull head on it and two crossed bones (all in white and in the middle of the flag), and then we marched on."
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BnF, Manuscrit Français 385, f. 25, digitised on Gallica; For a translation in English, see Pirate Flags Pirate Mythtory. Archived 21 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine: "And we put down our white flag, and raised a red flag with a Skull head on it and two crossed bones (all in white and in the middle of the flag), and then we marched on."
BnF, Manuscrit Français 385, f. 25, digitised on Gallica; For a translation in English, see Pirate Flags Pirate Mythtory. Archived 21 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine: "And we put down our white flag, and raised a red flag with a Skull head on it and two crossed bones (all in white and in the middle of the flag), and then we marched on."
See, e.g., Angus Konstam, Pirates: 1660–1730; Douglas Botting, The Pirates; "Flags". Archived from the original on 15 January 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2007.; etcetera.
Mary Frear Keeler (ed.), Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585–86 (1981), p. 161, footnote 3: "No reference to black flags on Drake's ships, mentioned also by Castellanos (Castellanos, Juan de, Discurso de el Capitan Francisco Draque .. . 1586-1587, p. 173), appears in either Spanish official accounts or English narratives."
Leeson, Peter T. (2008). Pirational Choice: The Economics of Infamous Pirate Practices(PDF). p.12. "Ships attacking under the death head's toothy grin were therefore considered criminal and could be prosecuted as pirates. Since pirates were criminals anyway, for them, flying the Jolly Roger was costless. If they were captured and found guilty, the penalty they faced was the same whether they used the Jolly Roger in taking merchant ships or not – the hangman's noose... For legitimate ships, however, things were different. To retain at least a veneer of legitimacy, privateers and Spanish coast guard ships could not sail under pirate colours. If they did, they could be hunted and hanged as pirates."
BnF, Manuscrit Français 385, f. 25, digitised on Gallica; For a translation in English, see Pirate Flags Pirate Mythtory. Archived 21 January 2005 at the Wayback Machine: "And we put down our white flag, and raised a red flag with a Skull head on it and two crossed bones (all in white and in the middle of the flag), and then we marched on."
See, e.g., Angus Konstam, Pirates: 1660–1730; Douglas Botting, The Pirates; "Flags". Archived from the original on 15 January 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2007.; etcetera.
